I long for Your salvation, O Lord, and Your law is my delight.
I wait for Your salvation, O Lord!
Is not my house like this with God? For He made an everlasting covenant with me, ordered in all things and secure. For this is all my salvation and all my desire; will He not make it flourish?
but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
Your testimonies have I taken as my 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 like one who finds great spoil.
Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.
Let Your mercies also come to me, O Lord, Your salvation according to Your word.
I will take delight in Your commandments, which I love.
Let Your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for Your law is my delight.
My soul languishes for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but the desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my lover, that you tell him I am sick with love.
I am in a difficult position between the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.