How I have loved Your law, O Lord! It is my meditation all the day.

But his pleasure is in the law of the Lord; and in His law will he meditate day and night.

The law of his God is in his heart; and his steps shall not slide.

I desired to do Your will, O my God, and Your law in the midst of my heart.

And receive a declaration from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

[My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it within you;

For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,

[then] good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;

Hear Me, you that know judgment, the people in whose heart is My law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.

Consume them, and Your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart. For Your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

But Mary treasured all these things and pondered [them] in her heart.

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them. And His mother kept all these things in her heart.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

And spare Your servant [from the attack] of strangers; if they do not gain the dominion over me, then shall I be blameless, and I shall be clear from great sin.