All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.
I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
I am delighted by your saying, like a man who makes discovery of great wealth.
I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.
And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.
CAPH My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.
Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.
Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.
For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.
I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.
VAU Let your mercies come to me, O Lord, even your salvation, as you have said.