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Aleph Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
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Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
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They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
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You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.
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O that my ways were directed to keep your statutes!
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Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all your commandments.
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I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments.
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I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
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Beth How shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word.
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With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.
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Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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Blessed are you, O LORD: teach me your statutes.
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With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.
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I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
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I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect unto your ways.
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I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
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Gimel Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and keep your word.
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Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
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I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
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My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments at all times.
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You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, who do err from your commandments.
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Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies.
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Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes.
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Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
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Daleth My soul clings unto the dust: revive me according to your word.
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I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
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Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall I talk of your wondrous works.
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My soul melts for heaviness: strengthen me according unto your word.
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Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me your law graciously.
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I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me.
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I have clung unto your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.
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I will run the way of your commandments, when you shall enlarge my heart.
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He Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
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Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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Make me to go in the path of your commandments; for therein do I delight.
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Incline my heart unto your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
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Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and revive me in your way.