My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.
My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you— if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him I am faint with love.
You are my refuge and my shield; I have put my hope in your word.
Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight.
May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.
then I can answer anyone who taunts me, for I trust in your word.
My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.
I myself will see him with my own eyes—I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
May your unfailing love come to me, Lord, your salvation, according to your promise;
Never take your word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws.
I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.