I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah; and Your Law is my delight.
I have waited for your salvation, O Jehovah.
For is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things, and sure; for all my salvation, and all my desire, will He not make it grow?
But his delight is only in the Law of Jehovah, and he meditates in His Law day and night.
I have inherited Your testimonies forever; for they are the joy of my heart.
I will delight myself in Your statutes. I will not forget Your Word.
I rejoice at Your Word, as one who finds great plunder.
Your testimonies also are my delight, the man of my counsel.
VAU: By Your salvation, according to Your Word, let Your mercies come to me, O Jehovah.
And I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I have loved.
Let Your mercies come to me that I may live; for Your Law is my delight.
KAPH: My soul is being consumed for Your salvation; I hope in Your Word.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a tree of life is desire coming.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my Beloved, what do you tell Him? That I am sick with love.
For I am pressed together by the two: having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better,