<p class="poetry">For I have obeyed the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s commands;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have not rebelled against my God.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My feet<n id="1" /> have followed<n id="2" /> his steps closely;p> <p class="poetry">I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">As for the actions of people<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">just as you have commanded,p> <p class="poetry">I have not followed in the footsteps of violent men.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">For I have obeyed the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s commands;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have not rebelled against my God.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Before I was afflicted I used to stray off,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but now I keep your instructions.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I keep your precepts and rules,p> <p class="poetry">for you are aware of everything I do.<n id="1" />p>

Now David had been thinking,<n id="1" /> &#8220;In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn&#8217;t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.