¹⁷⁴ I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

²⁴ Indeed your statutes are my delight, And my counselors.

¹⁶ I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

²³ But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

²³ Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

²⁴ For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

²⁵ But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

²² For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

²³ but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

²⁵ I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God's law, but with the flesh, the sin's law.

⁸ I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, That you tell him that I am faint with love. Friends

¹² Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

¹⁶⁶ I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

¹⁶⁷ My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

¹⁶² I rejoice at your word, As one who finds great spoil.

¹¹¹ I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, For they are the joy of my heart.

⁸¹ My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

⁷⁷ Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; For your law is my delight.

⁴⁷ I will delight myself in your commandments, Because I love them.

² But his delight is in Yahweh's law; On his law he meditates day and night.

⁵ Most assuredly my house is not so with God; Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he doesn't make it grow.

¹⁸ I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.