Psalm 119: Pe, Part 17

Wonderful Thy statutes are;
Therefore doth my soul regard.
Keep them with an awful care,
Find them here my great reward.
Soon as e'er Thy word takes place.
Light it doth and wisdom give;
Then the children learn Thy ways,
Then the simple hearts believe.

Lord, I have with strong desire
Panted to obey Thy will,
Give Thee all Thy laws require,
All Thy gracious words fulfil.
I Thy promised mercy claim;
See me, with compassion see!
Join to those who love Thy name.
Perfect all Thy love in me!

Help me in Thy steps to tread,
Let not sin dominion have,
Till Thou make me free indeed,
Till Thou to the utmost save.
Save me from the world and sin.
So will I Thy precepts do,
When Thy law is wrote within,
When I am a creature new.

Lord, I am and will be Thine;
Show me Thy enlightening grace,
Cause on me Thy face to shine.
Teach me all Thy righteousness:
Teach the souls o'er whom I weep,
For whose sins mine eyes o'erflow;
O that all Thy law would keep!
O that all Thy love would know!
y TZADDI. PART XVIII.
I Sovereign, everlasting Lord,
Thou art perfect righteousness;
Pure is Thine unerring word,
Upright are Thy high decrees:
Righteous all Thy statutes are;
Thee " the Merciful" they prove,
Thee "the Faithful" they declare,
Full of truth, and full of love.
Swallow'd up with fervent zeal
My presumptuous foes I see,
Who against my God rebel,
Slight the law prescribed by Thee.
Holy is Thy word and right;
Therefore doth my heart embrace,
Loves it with a pure delight,
Freely, joyfully obeys.
Small T am in mine own eyes.
Poor and despicably low;
Yet I still Thy precepts prize,
Will not from Thy statutes go:
I'ruth and righteousness Divine
Essence of Thy precepts is; —
Truth which shall through ages shine,
Everlasting righteousness.
Pain, and anguish, and affright
Oft my troubled soul assail;
Yet Thy law is my delight.
Stays when all my comforts fail:
Never can Thy word remove;
Thou the heavenly wisdom give;
I shall then be saved by love,
Free from sin for ever live.
p KOPH. PART XIX.