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 I shall continue to keep your law; * I shall keep it for ever and ever.

I will walk at liberty, * because I study your commandments.

I will tell of your decrees before kings * and will not be ashamed.

I delight in your commandments, * which I have always loved.

I will lift up my hands to your commandments, * and I will meditate on your statutes.

Zayin

Remember your word to your servant, * because you have given me hope.

This is my comfort in my trouble, * that your promise gives me life.

The proud have derided me cruelly, * but I have not turned from your law.

When I remember your judgments of old, * O, I take great comfort.

I am filled with a burning rage, * because of the wicked who forsake your law.

Your statutes have been like songs to me * wherever I have lived as a stranger.

I remember your Name in the night, O, * and dwell upon your law.

This is how it has been with me, * because I have kept your commandments.