If Your Law was not my delight, then I had perished in my affliction.
Distress and anguish have found me; Your commands are my delight.
I will delight myself in Your statutes. I will not forget Your Word.
Your testimonies also are my delight, the man of my counsel.
This is my comfort in my affliction; for Your Word has given me life.
Let Your mercies come to me that I may live; for Your Law is my delight.
I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.
For as many things as were written before were written for our instruction, that through the patience and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.