172 My tongue shall declare thy word, for all thy commandments are righteous.

173 Thy hand be to help me, for I have chosen Thy commandments.

174 I thirst for Thy salvation, O Lord, and Thy law is my comfort.

175 Let my soul live and praise you, and let your judgments help me.

176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant, for I have not forgotten thy commandments.

Psalm 119

Song of ascent.

1 I cried unto the Lord in my affliction, and he heard me.

2 Lord! deliver my soul from lying lips, from the tongue of evil.

3 What shall the wicked tongue give thee, and what shall the wicked tongue add unto thee?

4 The sophisticated arrows of the strong, with burning gorse coals.

5 Woe is me, that I dwell with Mosoch, dwell at the tents of Kidar.

6 Long has my soul dwelt with them that hate the world.

7 I am peaceful: but as soon as I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 120

Song of ascent.

1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains, whence my help comes.

2 My help is from the Lord, who created heaven and earth.

3 He will not let thy foot be shaken, nor shall he that keepeth thee slumber;

4 He that keepeth Israel sleepeth not, nor sleepeth.

5 The Lord is thy guardian; The Lord is thy shadow from thy right hand.

6 By day the sun shall not smite thee, nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord will keep you from all evil; [the Lord] will preserve your soul.

8 The Lord will watch over your going out and your going in from now on and forever.

Psalm 121

Song of ascent. David.

1 I rejoiced when they said to me, 'Let us go to the house of the Lord.'

2 Behold, our feet stand in thy gate, O Jerusalem,