Verse 23

Psalms 120:23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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23 For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

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Chapter 120 Context

1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Focus ↗

2 Blessed are they who search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart. Focus ↗

3 For they that work iniquity, have not walked in his ways. Focus ↗

4 Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently. Focus ↗

5 O! that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications. Focus ↗

6 Then shall I not be confounded, when I shall look into all thy commandments. Focus ↗

7 I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned the judgments of thy justice... Focus ↗

8 I will keep thy justifications: O! do not thou utterly forsake me. BETH Focus ↗

9 By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words. Focus ↗

10 With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments. Focus ↗

11 Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee. Focus ↗

12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications. Focus ↗

13 With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth. Focus ↗

14 I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches. Focus ↗

15 I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways. Focus ↗

16 I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. GIMEL Focus ↗

17 Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words. Focus ↗

18 Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law. Focus ↗

19 I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. Focus ↗

20 My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times. Focus ↗

21 Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments. Focus ↗

22 Remove from reproach and contempt: because I have sought after thy testimonies. Focus ↗

23 For princes sat, and spoke against me: but thy servant was employed in thy justifications.

24 For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel. DALETH Focus ↗

25 My soul hath cleaved to the pavement: quicken thou me according to thy word. Focus ↗

26 I have declared my ways, and thou hast heard me: tech me thy justifications. Focus ↗

27 Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works. Focus ↗

28 My soul hath slumbered through heaviness: strengthen thou me in thy words. Focus ↗

29 Remove from me the way of iniquity: and out of thy law have mercy on me. Focus ↗

30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments I have not forgotten. Focus ↗

31 I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame. Focus ↗

32 I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart. HE Focus ↗

33 Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it. Focus ↗

34 Give me understanding, and I will search thy law ; and I will keep it with my whole heart. Focus ↗

35 Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired. Focus ↗

36 Incline my heart into thy testimonies and not to covetousness. Focus ↗

37 Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way. Focus ↗

38 Establish thy word to thy servant, in thy fear. Focus ↗

39 Turn away my reproach, which I have apprehended: for thy judgments are delightful. Focus ↗

40 Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice. VAU Focus ↗

41 Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word. Focus ↗

42 So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words. Focus ↗

43 And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words have I hoped exceeding... Focus ↗

44 So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever. Focus ↗

45 And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments. Focus ↗

46 And I spoke of thy testimonies before kings: and I was not ashamed. Focus ↗

47 I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved. Focus ↗

48 And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justificatio... Focus ↗

49 Be thou mindful of thy word to thy servant, in which thou hast given me hope. Focus ↗

50 This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me. Focus ↗

51 The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law. Focus ↗

52 I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted. Focus ↗

53 A fainting hath taken hold of me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Focus ↗

54 Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage. Focus ↗

55 In the night I have remembered thy name, O Lord: and have kept thy law. Focus ↗

56 This happened to me: because I sought after thy justifications. HETH Focus ↗

57 O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep the law. Focus ↗

58 I entreated thy face with all my heart: have mercy on me according to thy word. Focus ↗

59 I have thought on my ways: and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. Focus ↗

60 I am ready, and am not troubled: that I may keep thy commandments. Focus ↗

61 The cords of the wicked have encompassed me: but I have not forgotten thy law. Focus ↗

62 I rose at midnight to give praise to thee; for the judgments of thy justification. Focus ↗

63 I am a partaker with all them that fear thee, and that keep thy commandments. Focus ↗

64 The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy justifications. TETH Focus ↗

65 Thou hast done well with thy servant, O Lord, according to thy word. Focus ↗

66 Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge; for I have believed thy commandments. Focus ↗

67 Before I was humbled I offended; therefore have I kept thy word. Focus ↗

68 Thou art good; and in thy goodness teach me thy justifications. Focus ↗

69 The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my who... Focus ↗

70 Their heart is curdled like milk: but I have meditated on thy law. Focus ↗

71 It is good for me that thou hast humbled me, that I may learn thy justifications. Focus ↗

72 The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver. JOD Focus ↗

73 Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments. Focus ↗

74 They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad: because I have greatly hoped in thy words. Focus ↗

75 I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are equity: and in thy truth thou hast humbled me. Focus ↗

76 O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. Focus ↗

77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation. Focus ↗

78 Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy... Focus ↗

79 Let them that fear thee turn to me\" and they that know thy testimonies. Focus ↗

80 Let my heart be undefiled in thy justifications, that I may not be confounded. CAPH Focus ↗

81 My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped. Focus ↗

82 My eyes have failed for thy word, saying: When wilt thou comfort me? Focus ↗

83 For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications. Focus ↗

84 How many are the days of thy servant: when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? Focus ↗

85 The wicked have told me fables: but not as thy law. Focus ↗

86 All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me. Focus ↗

87 They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments. Focus ↗

88 Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth. LAMED Focus ↗

89 For ever, O Lord, thy word standeth firm in heaven. Focus ↗

90 Thy truth unto all generations: thou hast founded the earth, and it continueth. Focus ↗

91 By thy ordinance the day goeth on: for all things serve thee. Focus ↗

92 Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection. Focus ↗

93 Thy justifications I will never forget: for by them thou hast given me life. Focus ↗

94 I am thine, save thou me: for I have sought thy justifications. Focus ↗

95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I have understood thy testimonies. Focus ↗

96 I have seen an end to all persecution: thy commandment is exceeding broad. MEM Focus ↗

97 O how have I loved thy law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day. Focus ↗

98 Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me. Focus ↗

99 I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation. Focus ↗

100 I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments. Focus ↗

101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way: that I may keep thy words. Focus ↗

102 I have not declined from thy judgments, because thou hast set me a law. Focus ↗

103 How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth. Focus ↗

104 By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity. NUN Focus ↗

105 Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my paths. Focus ↗

106 I have sworn and am determined to keep the judgments of thy justice. Focus ↗

107 I have been humbled, O Lord, exceedingly: quicken thou me according to thy word. Focus ↗

108 The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgments. Focus ↗

109 My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law. Focus ↗

110 Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy precepts. Focus ↗

111 I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are a joy to my heart. Focus ↗

112 I have inclined my heart to do thy justifications for ever, for the reward. SAMECH Focus ↗

113 I have hated the unjust: and have loved thy law. Focus ↗

114 Thou art my helper and my protector: and in thy word I have greatly hoped. Focus ↗

115 Depart from me, ye malignant: and I will search the commandments of my God (Elohim). Focus ↗

116 Uphold me according to thy word, and I shall live: and let me not be confounded in my expectation. Focus ↗

117 Help me, and I shall be saved: and I will meditate always on thy justifications. Focus ↗

118 Thou hast despised all them that fall off from thy judgments; for their thought is unjust. Focus ↗

119 I have accounted all the sinners of the earth prevaricators: therefore have I loved thy testimonies. Focus ↗

120 Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments. AIN Focus ↗

121 I have done judgment and justice: give me not up to them that slander me. Focus ↗

122 Uphold thy servant unto good: let not the proud calumniate me. Focus ↗

123 My eyes have fainted after thy salvation: and for the word of thy justice. Focus ↗

124 Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy: and teach me thy justifications. Focus ↗

125 I am thy servant: give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies. Focus ↗

126 It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law. Focus ↗

127 Therefore have I loved thy commandments above gold and the topaz. Focus ↗

128 Therefore was I directed to all thy commandments: I have hated all wicked ways. PHE Focus ↗

129 Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul hath sought them. Focus ↗

130 The declaration of thy words giveth light: and giveth understanding to little ones. Focus ↗

131 I opened my mouth and panted: because I longed for thy commandments. Focus ↗

132 Look thou upon me, and have mercy on me, according to the judgment of them that love thy name. Focus ↗

133 Direct my steps according to thy word: and let no iniquity have dominion over me. Focus ↗

134 Redeem me from the calumnies of men: that I may keep thy commandments. Focus ↗

135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: and teach me thy justifications. Focus ↗

136 My eyes have sent forth springs of water: because they have not kept thy law. SADE Focus ↗

137 Thou art just, O Lord: and thy judgment is right. Focus ↗

138 Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth exceedingly. Focus ↗

139 My zeal hath made me pine away: because my enemies forgot thy words. Focus ↗

140 Thy word is exceedingly refined: and thy servant hath loved it. Focus ↗

141 I am very young and despised; but I forgot not thy justifications. Focus ↗

142 Thy justice is justice for ever: and thy law is the truth. Focus ↗

143 Trouble and anguish have found me: thy commandments are my meditation. Focus ↗

144 Thy testimonies are justice for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live. COPH Focus ↗

145 I cried with my whole heart, hear me, O Lord: I will seek thy justifications. Focus ↗

146 I cried unto thee, save me: that I may keep thy commandments. Focus ↗

147 I prevented the dawning of the day, and cried: because in thy words I very much hoped. Focus ↗

148 My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words. Focus ↗

149 Hear thou my voice, O Lord, according to thy mercy: and quicken me according to thy mercy. Focus ↗

150 They that persecute me have drawn nigh to iniquity; but they are gone far off from the law. Focus ↗

151 Thou art near, O Lord: and all thy ways are truth. Focus ↗

152 I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever. R... Focus ↗

153 See my humiliation and deliver me: for I have not forgotten the law. Focus ↗

154 Judge my judgment and redeem me: quicken thou me for thy word's sake. Focus ↗

155 Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications. Focus ↗

156 Many, O Lord, are thy mercies: quicken me according to thy judgment. Focus ↗

157 Many are they that persecute me, and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies. Focus ↗

158 I beheld the transgressors, and I pined away; because they kept not thy word. Focus ↗

159 Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy. Focus ↗

160 The beginning of thy words is truth: all the judgments of thy justice are for ever. SIN Focus ↗

161 Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words. Focus ↗

162 I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil. Focus ↗

163 I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law. Focus ↗

164 Seven times a day I have given praise to thee, for the judgments of thy justice. Focus ↗

165 Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block Focus ↗

166 I looked to thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments. Focus ↗

167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies: and hath loved them exceedingly. Focus ↗

168 I have kept thy commandments and thy testimonies: because all my ways are in thy sight. TAU Focus ↗

169 Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word. Focus ↗

170 Let my request come in before thee; deliver thou me according to thy word. Focus ↗

171 My lips shall utter a hymn, when thou shalt teach me thy justifications. Focus ↗

172 My tongue shall pronounce thy word: because all thy commandments are justice. Focus ↗

173 Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts. Focus ↗

174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation. Focus ↗

175 My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me. Focus ↗

176 I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost: seek thy servant, because I have not forgotten thy com... Focus ↗

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Book: Psalms
Chapter: Chapter 120 (176 verses)
Version: Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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