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33 Aim my life, O Yahweh, that it will flowalong the course of the customs and laws you’ve enacted,

And I will guard them, maintainthem, and protect them to the end as a great reward

34 Give me the ability to distinguish andunderstand with diligence, cunning, and eloquence and I will keep Your Law byguarding it, protecting it, and maintaining it, obeying and preserving it!

It is true! I will becircumspect, and take heed to its instructions and their consequences, and obeythem with my whole heart.

 35 Pointme like an arrow in a bent bow down the beaten path of Your Divine Law.

I am pleased and delighted withthem because I am inclined to them and have a bent to favor them.

36 Stretch my heart and bend it (from the verycenter of my being) toward the record and evidence of Your Laws,

And not to seeking plunder, unjustor dishonest gain.

37 Redirect my eyes (which are the fountain ofmy thoughts) so that they may be alienated from gazing on and visually experiencinguseless and ruinous things of evil and idolatry and the skilled deceit that goeswith these vain things.

Revive and restore me to life inhow to tread Your road, and living life according to Your course, and acting asYou desire.

38 Make the things You command clearer andabiding to Your bondservant, ordain and perform these things to me so that I may exceedingly fear and revere You because of the confirmation of them!

39 Fend off and help me escape the reproach,shame, disgrace, and contumely (rude expressions intended to hurt or offend)that I dread.

40 See how I have longed for and desired Yourmandates.

Revive me and restore my life throughthe prosperity of Your rightness, rectitude, justice, and virtue.