Oh, how I love Your law! It [is] my meditation all the day.

But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.

The law of his God [is] in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.

I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law [is] within my heart."

Receive, please, instruction from His mouth, And lay up His words in your heart.

My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,

When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,

Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you,

" Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in whose heart [is] My law: Do not fear the reproach of men, Nor be afraid of their insults.

Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD God of hosts.

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

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but 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.

Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous [sins;] Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression.