49

Remember, Lord, thy gracious word

thou to thy servant spake,

Which, for a ground of my sure hope,

thou causedst me to take.

50

This word of thine my comfort is

in mine affliction:

For in my straits I am reviv’d

by this thy word alone.

51

The men whose hearts with pride are stuff’d

did greatly me deride;

Yet from thy straight commandements

I have not turn’d aside.

52

Thy judgments righteous, O Lord,

which thou of old forth gave,

I did remember, and myself

by them comforted have.

53

Horror took hold on me, because

ill men thy law forsake.

54

I in my house of pilgrimage

thy laws my songs do make.

55

Thy name by night, Lord, I did mind,

and I have kept thy law.

56

And this I had, because thy word

I kept, and stood in awe.