Psalm 119:97–104
Mem, the Thirteenth Part

Tunes PCC uses:   Stroudwater, Contemplation

 

97

O how love I thy law! it is

 

 

my study all the day:

98

It makes me wiser than my foes;

 

 

for it doth with me stay.

99

Than all my teachers now I have

 

 

more understanding far;

 

Because my meditation

 

 

thy testimonies are.

 

100

In understanding I excel

 

 

those that are ancients;

 

For I endeavoured to keep

 

 

all thy commandements.

101

My feet from each ill way I stay’d,

 

 

that I may keep thy word.

102

I from thy judgments have not swerv’d;

 

 

for thou hast taught me, Lord.

 

103

How sweet unto my taste, O Lord,

 

 

are all thy words of truth!

 

Yea, I do find them sweeter far

 

 

than honey to my mouth.

104

I through thy precepts, that are pure,

 

 

do understanding get;

 

I therefore ev’ry way that’s false

 

 

with all my heart do hate.



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