Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.