Good you did for your servant, O Lord
Just as you spoke.
Fine taste and knowledge teach me
For it is your commandments that I trust.
Before I was afflicted, I went straying
But now … your word I keep.
Good are you, who does good:
Teach me your statutes.
Insolent liars smear me –-
I guard your precepts with my whole heart.
Unfeeling as fat is their heart —
I rejoice in your law.
Good it is for me that I was humbled,
Because I have learned your statutes.
Good it is for me, the law of your mouth
Better even than gold and silver.
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