Unless Thy law `were' my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.
Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands `are' my delights.
In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.
Thy testimonies also `are' my delight, The men of my counsel!
This `is' my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.
Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law `is' my delight.
I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!
for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.