Let my cry come before You, O LORD; Give me understanding according to Your word.
Let my supplication come before You; Deliver me according to Your word.
My lips shall utter praise, For You teach me Your statutes.
My tongue shall speak of Your word, For all Your commandments arerighteousness.
Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your precepts.
I long for Your salvation, O LORD, And Your law ismy delight.
Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; And let Your judgments help me.
I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek Your servant, For I do not forget Your commandments.
What a coda to this beautiful hymn of praise for the Word of God. I love that third line, “my lips shall offer praise, for You teach me Your Statutes.
The following words are from the commentary of FB Meyer: What a noble conclusion we reach in these closing stanzas! we read and meditate; we walk in the pleasant fields of nature. We have our homes, our loved ones, the respect and good-will of many. But, above all, we have God, and His Word, our eternal hope, and blessed foretastes of the heaven that is to be. Surely we should be less peevish and morose! We should rejoice in every good thing that the Lord our God gives us. We should take the cup brimming with salvation and praise His holy Name. “He that hath so many causes of joy must be very much in love with sorrow, who chooses to turn aside and sit upon his little handful of thorns.” And is not this the most wonderful of all, that though we were going astray like lost sheep, the Great Shepherd Himself came to seek and to save? Te Deum Laudamus!
Readings
Morning Psalm 44, Noon Psalm 119:161-168, Evening Psalm 96
