RESH. The twentieth part.
[verse 153] My trouble and affliction
consider and behold:
Deliver me, for of thy law
I ever take fast hold.
[verse 154] Defend my good and righteous cause,
with speed some succour send:
From death, as thou hast promised,
Lord, keep me and defend.
[verse 155] As for the wicked, far they are
from having health and grace:
Whereby they might thy statutes know
they enter not the trace.
[verse 156] Great are thy mercies, Lord, I grant,
what tongue can them attain?
And as thou hast me judg'd ere now,
so let me life obtain.
[verse 157] Though many men did trouble me,
and persecute me sore:
Yet from thy laws I never shrunk,
nor went: wry therefore.
[verse 158] And truth it is, for grief I die
when I these traitours see:
Because they keep no whit thy word,
nor yet seek to know thee.
[verse 159] Behold, for I do love thy laws
with heart most glad and fain:
As thou art good and gracious, Lord,
restore my life again.
[verse 160] What thy word doth decree must be,
and so it hath been ever:
Thy righteous judgements are also
most true, and decay never.