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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.119.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">How can a young person stay on the path of purity?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.119.9"><span class="content">By living according to your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.119.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.119.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I seek you with all my heart;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.119.10"><span class="content">do not let me stray from your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.119.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.119.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I have hidden your word in my heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.119.11"><span class="content">that I might not sin against you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.119.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.119.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Praise be to you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.119.12"><span class="content">teach me your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.119.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.119.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">With my lips I recount</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.119.13"><span class="content">all the laws that come from your mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.119.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.119.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I rejoice in following your statutes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.119.14"><span class="content">as one rejoices in great riches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.119.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.119.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I meditate on your precepts</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.119.15"><span class="content">and consider your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.119.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.119.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I delight in your decrees;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.119.16"><span class="content">I will not neglect your word.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1490; Gimel</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.119.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.119.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Be good to your servant while I live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.119.17"><span class="content">that I may obey your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.119.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.119.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Open my eyes that I may see</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.119.18"><span class="content">wonderful things in your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.119.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">My soul is weary with sorrow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"><span class="content">strengthen me according to your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.119.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Keep me from deceitful ways;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"><span class="content">be gracious to me and teach me your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PSA.119.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I have chosen the way of faithfulness;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"><span class="content">I have set my heart on your laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PSA.119.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">I hold fast to your statutes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"><span class="content">do not let me be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PSA.119.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">I run in the path of your commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"><span class="content">for you have broadened my understanding.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1492; He</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="PSA.119.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Teach me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the way of your decrees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"><span class="content">that I may follow it to the end.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">119:33 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">follow it for its reward</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="PSA.119.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"><span class="content">and obey it with all my heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="PSA.119.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Direct me in the path of your commands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"><span class="content">for there I find delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="PSA.119.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Turn my heart toward your statutes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"><span class="content">and not toward selfish gain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="PSA.119.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Turn my eyes away from worthless things;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"><span class="content">preserve my life according to your word.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">119:37 </span><span class="ft">Two manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Dead Sea Scrolls; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">life in your way</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="PSA.119.37"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.119.71"><span class="label">71</span><span class="content">It was good for me to be afflicted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.119.71"><span class="content">so that I might learn your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v71" data-usfm="PSA.119.71"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.119.72"><span class="label">72</span><span class="content">The law from your mouth is more precious to me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.119.72"><span class="content">than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1497; Yodh</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v72" data-usfm="PSA.119.72"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"><span class="label">73</span><span class="content">Your hands made me and formed me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"><span class="content">give me understanding to learn your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v73" data-usfm="PSA.119.73"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"><span class="label">74</span><span class="content">May those who fear you rejoice when they see me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"><span class="content">for I have put my hope in your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v74" data-usfm="PSA.119.74"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"><span class="label">75</span><span class="content">I know, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that your laws are righteous,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"><span class="content">and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v75" data-usfm="PSA.119.75"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"><span class="label">76</span><span class="content">May your unfailing love be my comfort,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"><span class="content">according to your promise to your servant.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v76" data-usfm="PSA.119.76"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"><span class="label">77</span><span class="content">Let your compassion come to me that I may live,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"><span class="content">for your law is my delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v77" data-usfm="PSA.119.77"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"><span class="label">89</span><span class="content">Your word, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, is eternal;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"><span class="content">it stands firm in the heavens.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v89" data-usfm="PSA.119.89"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"><span class="label">90</span><span class="content">Your faithfulness continues through all generations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"><span class="content">you established the earth, and it endures.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v90" data-usfm="PSA.119.90"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"><span class="label">91</span><span class="content">Your laws endure to this day,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"><span class="content">for all things serve you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v91" data-usfm="PSA.119.91"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"><span class="label">92</span><span class="content">If your law had not been my delight,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"><span class="content">I would have perished in my affliction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v92" data-usfm="PSA.119.92"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"><span class="label">93</span><span class="content">I will never forget your precepts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"><span class="content">for by them you have preserved my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v93" data-usfm="PSA.119.93"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"><span class="label">94</span><span class="content">Save me, for I am yours;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"><span class="content">I have sought out your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v94" data-usfm="PSA.119.94"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"><span class="label">95</span><span class="content">The wicked are waiting to destroy me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"><span class="content">but I will ponder your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v95" data-usfm="PSA.119.95"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v96" data-usfm="PSA.119.96"><span class="label">96</span><span class="content">To all perfection I see a limit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v96" data-usfm="PSA.119.96"><span class="content">but your commands are boundless.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1502; Mem</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v96" data-usfm="PSA.119.96"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v97" data-usfm="PSA.119.97"><span class="label">97</span><span class="content">Oh, how I love your law!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v97" data-usfm="PSA.119.97"><span class="content">I meditate on it all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v97" data-usfm="PSA.119.97"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v103" data-usfm="PSA.119.103"><span class="label">103</span><span class="content">How sweet are your words to my taste,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v103" data-usfm="PSA.119.103"><span class="content">sweeter than honey to my mouth!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v103" data-usfm="PSA.119.103"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v104" data-usfm="PSA.119.104"><span class="label">104</span><span class="content">I gain understanding from your precepts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v104" data-usfm="PSA.119.104"><span class="content">therefore I hate every wrong path.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1504; Nun</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v104" data-usfm="PSA.119.104"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v105" data-usfm="PSA.119.105"><span class="label">105</span><span class="content">Your word is a lamp for my feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v105" data-usfm="PSA.119.105"><span class="content">a light on my path.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v105" data-usfm="PSA.119.105"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v111" data-usfm="PSA.119.111"><span class="label">111</span><span class="content">Your statutes are my heritage forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v111" data-usfm="PSA.119.111"><span class="content">they are the joy of my heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v111" data-usfm="PSA.119.111"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v112" data-usfm="PSA.119.112"><span class="label">112</span><span class="content">My heart is set on keeping your decrees</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v112" data-usfm="PSA.119.112"><span class="content">to the very end.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">119:112 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">decrees / for their enduring reward</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v129" data-usfm="PSA.119.129"><span class="label">129</span><span class="content">Your statutes are wonderful;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v129" data-usfm="PSA.119.129"><span class="content">therefore I obey them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v129" data-usfm="PSA.119.129"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v130" data-usfm="PSA.119.130"><span class="label">130</span><span class="content">The unfolding of your words gives light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v130" data-usfm="PSA.119.130"><span class="content">it gives understanding to the simple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v130" data-usfm="PSA.119.130"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v131" data-usfm="PSA.119.131"><span class="label">131</span><span class="content">I open my mouth and pant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v131" data-usfm="PSA.119.131"><span class="content">longing for your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v131" data-usfm="PSA.119.131"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v132" data-usfm="PSA.119.132"><span class="label">132</span><span class="content">Turn to me and have mercy on me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v132" data-usfm="PSA.119.132"><span class="content">as you always do to those who love your name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v132" data-usfm="PSA.119.132"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v133" data-usfm="PSA.119.133"><span class="label">133</span><span class="content">Direct my footsteps according to your word;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v133" data-usfm="PSA.119.133"><span class="content">let no sin rule over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v133" data-usfm="PSA.119.133"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v171" data-usfm="PSA.119.171"><span class="label">171</span><span class="content">May my lips overflow with praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v171" data-usfm="PSA.119.171"><span class="content">for you teach me your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v171" data-usfm="PSA.119.171"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v172" data-usfm="PSA.119.172"><span class="label">172</span><span class="content">May my tongue sing of your word,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v172" data-usfm="PSA.119.172"><span class="content">for all your commands are righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v172" data-usfm="PSA.119.172"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v173" data-usfm="PSA.119.173"><span class="label">173</span><span class="content">May your hand be ready to help me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v173" data-usfm="PSA.119.173"><span class="content">for I have chosen your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v173" data-usfm="PSA.119.173"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v174" data-usfm="PSA.119.174"><span class="label">174</span><span class="content">I long for your salvation, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v174" data-usfm="PSA.119.174"><span class="content">and your law gives me delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v174" data-usfm="PSA.119.174"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v175" data-usfm="PSA.119.175"><span class="label">175</span><span class="content">Let me live that I may praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v175" data-usfm="PSA.119.175"><span class="content">and may your laws sustain me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v175" data-usfm="PSA.119.175"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v176" data-usfm="PSA.119.176"><span class="label">176</span><span class="content">I have strayed like a lost sheep.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v176" data-usfm="PSA.119.176"><span class="content">Seek your servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v176" data-usfm="PSA.119.176"><span class="content">for I have not forgotten your commands.</span></span></div>
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