I cried out to you, “Deliver me, so that I can keep your rules.”

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!

As far as the eastern horizon is from the west, so he removes the guilt of our rebellious actions from us.

so that your feet may stomp in their blood, and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies’ corpses.”

They will lift you up in their hands, so you will not slip and fall on a stone.

He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.

So my heart rejoices and I am happy; My life is safe.

Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

So they proclaim that the Lord, my protector, is just and never unfair.

Sustain me as you promised, so that I will live. Do not disappoint me!

Support me, so that I will be delivered. Then I will focus on your statutes continually.

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

He established them so they would endure; he issued a decree that will not be revoked.

As for you, O Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up, so I can pay them back!”

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.

He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the Lord!

as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.

You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.