In your unfailing love preserve my life, that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.
Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees.
I call out to you; save me and I will keep your statutes.
Hear my voice in accordance with your love; preserve my life, Lord, according to your laws.
See how I love your precepts; preserve my life, Lord, in accordance with your love.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart—
I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word.
How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.
If your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne for ever and ever.”
All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.
He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,