ZADE. The eighteenth part.
[verse 137] In every point, Lord, thou art just,
the wicked though they grudge:
And when thou dost sentence pronounce,
thou art a righteous Judge.
[verse 138] To render right, and flee from guile,
are two chief points most high:
And such as thou hast in thy law
commanded us straitly.
[verse 139] With zeal and wrath I am consum'd
and even pin'd away,
Too see my foes thy word forget,
for ought that I do may.
[verse 140] So pure and perfect is thy word,
as any heart can deem:
And I thy servant nothing more
do love or yet esteem.
[verse 141] And though I be nothing set by,
as one of base degree:
Yet do I not thy laws forget,
nor shrink away from thee.
[verse 142] Thy righteousness, Lord, is most just,
for ever to endure:
Also thy law is truth it self,
most constant and most pure.
[verse 143] Trouble and grief have seis'd on me,
and brought me wondrous low;
Yet do I still of thy precepts
delight to hear and know.
[verse 144] The righteousness of thy judgements
doth last for evermore:
Then teach them me, for even in them
my life lies up in store.