² Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night.^(A)

²⁴ your decrees are my delight
and my counselors.^(A)

⁴⁷ I delight in your commands,
which I love.^(A)

⁷⁰ Their hearts are hard and insensitive,^(A)
but I delight in your instruction.^(B)

⁷⁷ May your compassion come to me^(A)
so that I may live,
for your instruction is my delight.^(B)

⁹² If your instruction had not been my delight,
I would have died in my affliction.^(A)

¹⁴³ Trouble and distress have overtaken me,
but your commands are my delight.^(A)

¹⁷⁴ I long for your salvation, Lord,
and your instruction is my delight.^(A)