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.

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that `is' in Christ Jesus;

¹⁶ every Writing `is' God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that `is' in righteousness,

¹⁷ that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

¹⁰ To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear `is' uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

²⁰ Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

²¹ Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

²² In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked -- it talketh `with' thee.

²³ For a lamp `is' the command, And the law a light, And a way of life `are' reproofs of instruction,

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

¹⁴³ Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands `are' my delights.

¹⁰⁴ From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

¹⁰⁵ `Nun.' A lamp to my foot `is' Thy word, And a light to my path.

⁹⁷ `Mem.' O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it `is' my meditation.

⁹⁸ Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it `is' before me to the age.

⁹⁹ Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies `are' my meditation.

¹⁰⁰ Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

⁹² Unless Thy law `were' my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.

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

¹¹ Also -- Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them `is' a great reward.'

¹⁰ On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

⁸ the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

¹⁸ `And it hath been, when he sitteth on the throne of his kingdom, that he hath written for himself the copy of this law, on a book, from `that' before the priests the Levites,

¹⁹ and it hath been with him, and he hath read in it all days of his life, so that he doth learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them;

²⁰ so that his heart is not high above his brethren, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongeth days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.