157. Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, yet I do not swerve from Your testimonies.
158. I behold the treacherous and am grieved and loathe them, because they do not respect Your law [neither hearing, receiving, loving, nor obeying it].
159. Consider how I love Your precepts; revive me and give life to me, O Lord, according to Your loving-kindness!
160. The sum of Your word is truth [the total of the full meaning of all Your individual precepts]; and every one of Your righteous decrees endures forever.
161. Princes pursue and persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your words [dreading violation of them far more than the force of prince or potentate]. [I Sam. 24:11, 14; 26:18.]