I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.

O Lord, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! ¹  Teach me your regulations!

Guide me into your truth ¹  and teach me. For you are the God who delivers me; on you I rely all day long.

Teach me to do what pleases you, ¹  for you are my God. May your kind presence ²  lead me ³  into a level land. ⁴ 

By David. The Lord, my protector, ²  deserves praise ³  – the one who trains my hands for battle, ⁴  and my fingers for war,

If your sons keep my covenant and the rules I teach them, their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; ²  a prayer ³  of David written to instruct others. ⁴  It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down ⁵  12,000 Edomites ⁶  in the Valley of Salt. ⁷  O God, you have rejected us. ⁸  You suddenly turned on us in your anger. ⁹  Please restore us!