<p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/newsonknees/membership">Support the Show</a><br></p><p><strong>Summarized Transcript: </strong></p><p><br></p><p>Good morning. Today, we’re continuing our reading from Psalm 119. We have one more installment after this, where we’ll handle the last six stanzas. Today I’ll be reading verses 97-128</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Psalm 119</strong></p><p><strong>מ Mem</strong></p><p><strong>97 </strong></p><p>Oh, how I love your law!<br>    I meditate on it all day long.</p><p><strong>98 </strong></p><p>Your commands are always with me<br>    and make me wiser than my enemies.</p><p><strong>99 </strong></p><p>I have more insight than all my teachers,<br>    for I meditate on your statutes.</p><p><strong>100 </strong></p><p>I have more understanding than the elders,<br>    for I obey your precepts.</p><p><strong>101 </strong></p><p>I have kept my feet from every evil path<br>    so that I might obey your word.</p><p><strong>102 </strong></p><p>I have not departed from your laws,<br>    for you yourself have taught me.</p><p><strong>103 </strong></p><p>How sweet are your words to my taste,<br>    sweeter than honey to my mouth!</p><p><strong>104 </strong></p><p>I gain understanding from your precepts;<br>    therefore I hate every wrong path.</p><p><strong>נ Nun</strong></p><p><strong>105 </strong></p><p>Your word is a lamp for my feet,<br>    a light on my path.</p><p><strong>106 </strong></p><p>I have taken an oath and confirmed it,<br>    that I will follow your righteous laws.</p><p><strong>107 </strong></p><p>I have suffered much;<br>    preserve my life, Lord, according to your word.</p><p><strong>108 </strong></p><p>Accept, Lord, the willing praise of my mouth,<br>    and teach me your laws.</p><p><strong>109 </strong></p><p>Though I constantly take my life in my hands,<br>    I will not forget your law.</p><p><strong>110 </strong></p><p>The wicked have set a snare for me,<br>    but I have not strayed from your precepts.</p><p><strong>111 </strong></p><p>Your statutes are my heritage forever;<br>    they are the joy of my heart.</p><p><strong>112 </strong></p><p>My heart is set on keeping your decrees<br>    to the very end.[<u>d</u>]</p><p><strong>ס Samekh</strong></p><p><strong>113 </strong></p><p>I hate double-minded people,<br>    but I love your law.</p><p><strong>114 </strong></p><p>You are my refuge and my shield;<br>    I have put my hope in your word.</p><p><strong>115 </strong></p><p>Away from me, you evildoers,<br>    that I may keep the commands of my God!</p><p><strong>116 </strong></p><p>Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live;<br>    do not let my hopes be dashed.</p><p><strong>117 </strong></p><p>Uphold me, and I will be delivered;<br>    I will always have regard for your decrees.</p><p><strong>118 </strong></p><p>You reject all who stray from your decrees,<br>    for their delusions come to nothing.</p><p><strong>119 </strong></p><p>All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross;<br>    therefore I love your statutes.</p><p><strong>120 </strong></p><p>My flesh trembles in fear of you;<br>    I stand in awe of your laws.</p><p><strong>ע Ayin</strong></p><p><strong>121 </strong></p><p>I have done what is righteous and just;<br>    do not leave me to my oppressors.</p><p><strong>122 </strong></p><p>Ensure your servant’s well-being;<br>    do not let the arrogant oppress me.</p><p><strong>123 </strong></p><p>My eyes fail, looking for your salvation,<br>    looking for your righteous promise.</p><p><strong>124 </strong></p><p>Deal with your servant according to your love<br>    and teach me your decrees.</p><p><strong>125 </strong></p><p>I am your servant; give me discernment<br>    that I may understand your statutes.</p><p><strong>126 </strong></p><p>It is time for you to act, Lord;<br>    your law is being broken.</p><p><strong>127 </strong></p><p>Because I love your commands<br>    more than gold, more than pure gold,</p><p><strong>128 </strong></p><p>and because I consider all your precepts right,<br>    I hate every wrong path.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Thank you for listening to News on Knees, a community prayer podcast by Story King Media. </p><p><br></p><p>If you want to join the movement, I’m calling all believers, anyone who wants to pray for the world, their country, their region, a specific societal issue. 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