The King James Version Bible

Psalms 119:141-158

  1. I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

  2. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

  3. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

  4. The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

  5. I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

  6. I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.

  7. I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

  8. Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

  9. Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.

  10. They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.

  11. Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.

  12. Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

  13. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

  14. Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

  15. Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

  16. Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.

  17. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

  18. I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.