Psalm 119 49 ZAIN. Remember the word to Your slave, Which has raised up in me hope brave. 50 This is the comfort of my pain, Your word has quickened me again. 51 The proud have held me in disdain, I’ve not departed from Your law, But kept Your commandments in awe. 52 I minded Your judgements of old, YHWH, and took comfort in their mould. 53 Horror had taken hold on me: They forsake Your law wickedly. 54 Your statutes have been my songs’ page In the house of my pilgrimage. 55 I’ve remembered Your name, O YHWH, In the night, I’ve kept Your law true. 56 I had this for myself in view, Because I kept Your precepts due. How can a man desire a quickening, Emancipation gone beyond the wing Now found in the life quickened by Your word? All ten of Your commandments I have heard. Many there be who trust in crosses met Each day where sacrifices have been set On animal and on the holy brow From heavenly places sent to us somehow. The very thought that human sacrifice Has given anything that might suffice Evokes disgust in one who knows the life, Light and love quickened without toil or strife Of Your commandments ten. I keep them in Remembrance in the night against the din.
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