⁵ If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

⁵ And may your hearts be guided by the Lord into the love of God and quiet waiting for Christ.

¹⁰ Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.

²¹ Make you full of every good work and ready to do all his desires, working in us whatever is pleasing in his eyes through Jesus Christ; and may the glory be given to him for ever and ever. So be it.

²² In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,

²³ But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

²⁴ How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

³³ But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

¹⁷³ Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.

¹⁵⁹ See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.

¹³¹ My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

⁴⁴ So that I may keep your law for ever and ever;

⁴⁵ So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

³⁶ Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

³² I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.