I will praise thee with an upright [a]heart, when I shall learn the [b]judgments of thy righteousness.

I will keep thy statutes: forsake me not [c]overlong.

BETH

Wherewith shall a [d]young man redress his way? in taking heed thereto according to thy word.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:7 For true religion standeth in serving God without hypocrisy.
  2. Psalm 119:7 That is, thy precepts, which contain perfect righteousness.
  3. Psalm 119:8 He refuseth not to be tried by tentations, but he feareth to faint, if God succor not his infirmity in time.
  4. Psalm 119:9 Because youth is most given to licentiousness, he chiefly warneth them to frame their lives betimes to God’s word.

I will praise you with an upright heart
    as I learn your righteous laws.(A)
I will obey your decrees;
    do not utterly forsake me.(B)

ב Beth

How can a young person stay on the path of purity?(C)
    By living according to your word.(D)

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