Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.
The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Mine eyes prevent the [night] watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth.
Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
