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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