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It is good for me that I was afflicted, So that I may learn Your statutes.

Your hands made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, so that I may learn Your commandments.

May Your compassion come to me so that I may live, For Your Law is my delight.

May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, So that I will not be ashamed.

Revive me according to Your faithfulness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.

I have restrained my feet from every evil way, So that I may keep Your word.

Leave me, you evildoers, So that I may comply with the commandments of my God.

Sustain me so that I may be safe, That I may have regard for Your statutes continually.

I am Your servant; give me understanding, So that I may know Your testimonies.

Redeem me from oppression by man, So that I may keep Your precepts.

My eyes anticipate the night watches, So that I may meditate on Your word.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, As the eyes of a female servant to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God, Until He is gracious to us.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So the LORD surrounds His people From this time and forever.

For the scepter of wickedness will not rest upon the land of the righteous, So that the righteous will not extend their hands to do wrong.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth.

Behold, for so shall a man Who fears the LORD be blessed.

But there is forgiveness with You, So that You may be revered.

"Do not grant, LORD, the desires of the wicked; Do not bring about his evil planning, so that they are not exalted. Selah

"Bring my soul out of prison, So that I may give thanks to Your name; The righteous will surround me, For You will look after me."

Blessed are the people who are so situated; Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD!