If Your Torah had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
For whatever was written before was written for our instruction, so that through patience and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, yet Your mitzvot are my delight.
Let Your tender mercies reach me, Let me live, for Your Torah is my delight.
For Your testimonies are my delight— they are also my counselors.
Surely I trust that I will see the goodness of Adonai in the land of the living.
I will delight in Your decrees. I will never forget Your word.
My comfort in my affliction is this: Your word has kept me alive.