They repay my love with accusations, but I continue to pray.

I will find delight in your commands, which I love.

ס (Samek) I hate people with divided loyalties, but I love your law.

For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.

I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.

All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

O Lord, I love the temple where you live, the place where your splendor is revealed.

They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

I love the Lord because he heard my plea for mercy,

I will lift my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

מ (Mem) O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it.

You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.

See how I love your precepts! O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!

Then prepare for me some tasty food, the kind I love, and bring it to me. Then I will eat it so that I may bless you before I die.”

But if the servant should declare, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’

Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, ‘It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!’

Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain; I myself put a fine yokeon her neck. I will harness Ephraim. Let Judah plow! Let Jacob break up the unplowed ground for himself!

“I have shown love to you,” says the Lord, but you say, “How have you shown love to us?” “Esau was Jacob’s brother,” the Lord explains, “yet I chose Jacob