I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.

Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.

May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?

If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.

I have done what is just and right; do not leave me to my oppressors.

Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.

I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.

I call to You; save me, that I may keep Your testimonies.

I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.

My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.

Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.

May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

Restore our captives, O LORD, like streams in the Negev.

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.