¹⁷⁴ I have longed for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy law `is' my delight.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also `are' my delight, The men of my counsel!

¹⁶ In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.

²³ for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

²³ And not only `so', but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body;

²⁴ for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for `it'?

²⁵ and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect `it'.

²² for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

²³ and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that `is' in my members.

²⁴ A wretched man I `am'! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

²⁵ I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord; so then, I myself indeed with the mind do serve the law of God, and with the flesh, the law of sin.

⁸ I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved -- What do ye tell him? that I `am' sick with love!

¹² Hope prolonged is making the heart sick, And a tree of life `is' the coming desire.

¹⁶⁶ I have waited for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy commands I have done.

¹⁶⁷ Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly.

¹⁶² I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart `are' they.

⁸¹ `Kaph.' Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

⁷⁷ Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law `is' my delight.

⁴⁷ And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved,

² But -- in the law of Jehovah `is' his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

⁵ For -- not so `is' my house with God; For -- a covenant age-during He made with me, Arranged in all things, and kept; For -- all my salvation, and all desire, For -- He hath not caused `it' to spring up.

¹⁸ For Thy salvation I have waited, Jehovah!