79. Let those who reverently and worshipfully fear You turn to me, and those who have known Your testimonies.
80. Let my heart be sound (sincere and wholehearted and blameless) in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.
81. My soul languishes and grows faint for Your salvation, but I hope in Your word.
82. My eyes fail, watching for [the fulfillment of] Your promise. I say, When will You comfort me?
83. For I have become like a bottle [a wineskin blackened and shriveled] in the smoke [in which it hangs], yet do I not forget Your statutes.
84. How many are the days of Your servant [which he must endure]? When will You judge those who pursue and persecute me? [Rev. 6:10.]
85. The godless and arrogant have dug pitfalls for me, men who do not conform to Your law.
86. All Your commandments are faithful and sure. [The godless] pursue and persecute me with falsehood; help me [Lord]!
87. They had almost consumed me upon earth, but I forsook not Your precepts.
88. According to Your steadfast love give life to me; then I will keep the testimony of Your mouth [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it].
89. Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven [stands firm as the heavens]. [Ps. 89:2; Matt. 24:34, 35; I Pet. 1:25.]
90. Your faithfulness is from generation to generation; You have established the earth, and it stands fast.
91. All [the whole universe] are Your servants; therefore they continue this day according to Your ordinances. [Jer. 33:25.]
92. Unless Your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.