Welcome to the fourth segment of Psalm 119 on Build Your Bible Habit.

The opening verse prays for understanding and woven throughout our requests for comfort and help from God,

among many other things. We can pray these verses for our own lives as well.

Let's read verses 73 through 96 together.

Psalm 119. Verse 73 through 96. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding that I may

learn thy commandments. They that fear thee will be glad when they see me

because I have hoped in thy word. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness

hast afflicted me. Let I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live, for thy law is my delight.

Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt perversely with me without a cause, but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Let those that fear thee turn unto me and those that have known my testimonies.

Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed.

My soul fainteth for thy salvation, but I hope in thy word.

Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, when wilt thou comfort me? For I am become like a bottle in

the smoke, yet do I not forget thy statutes. How many are the days of thy servant?

When wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. All thy commandments are faithful.

They persecute me wrongfully. Help thou me. They had almost consumed me upon earth, but I forsook not thy precepts.

Quicken me after thy loving kindness, so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations. Thou hast established the earth,

and it abideth. They continue this day, according to thine ordinances, for all are thy servants.

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. I will never forget thy precepts,

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