I have longed for your salvation, O LORD; and your law is my delight.
I have waited for your salvation, O LORD.
Although my house be not so with God; yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he makes it not to grow.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
Your testimonies have I taken as a heritage forever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil.
Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
[Waw] Let your mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word.
And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
Let your tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for your law is my delight.
[Kaph] My soul faints for your salvation: but I hope in your word.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him, that I am sick with love.
For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: