Praying along with David...

Psalm 119:17-32 (The Message)

^17-24 Be generous with me and I'll live a full life;
not for a minute will I take my eyes off your road.
Open my eyes so I can see
what you show me of your miracle-wonders.
I'm a stranger in these parts;
give me clear directions.
My soul is starved and hungry, ravenous!—
insatiable for your nourishing commands.
And those who think they know so much,
ignoring everything you tell them—let them have it!
Don't let them mock and humiliate me;
I've been careful to do just what you said.
While bad neighbors maliciously gossip about me,
I'm absorbed in pondering your wise counsel.
Yes, your sayings on life are what give me delight;
I listen to them as to good neighbors!

^25-32 I'm feeling terrible—I couldn't feel worse! Get me on my feet again. You promised, remember? When I told my story, you responded; train me well in your deep wisdom. Help me understand these things inside and out so I can ponder your miracle-wonders. My sad life's dilapidated, a falling-down barn; build me up again by your Word. Barricade the road that goes Nowhere; grace me with your clear revelation. I choose the true road to Somewhere, I post your road signs at every curve and corner. I grasp and cling to whatever you tell me; God, don't let me down! I'll run the course you lay out for me if you'll just show me how.

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Psalm 119:17-32 (Amplified Bible)

¹⁷Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live; and I will observe Your word [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it].

¹⁸Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law.

¹⁹I am a stranger and a temporary resident on the earth; hide not Your commandments from me.

²⁰My heart is breaking with the longing that it has for Your ordinances and judgments at all times.

²¹You rebuke the proud and arrogant, the accursed ones, who err and wander from Your commandments.

²²Take away from me reproach and contempt, for I keep Your testimonies.

²³Princes also sat and talked against me, but Your servant meditated on Your statutes.

²⁴Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

²⁵My earthly life cleaves to the dust; revive and stimulate me according to Your word!

²⁶I have declared my ways and opened my griefs to You, and You listened to me; teach me Your statutes.

²⁷Make me understand the way of Your precepts; so shall I meditate on and talk of Your wondrous works.

²⁸My life dissolves and weeps itself away for heaviness; raise me up and strengthen me according to [the promises of] Your word.

²⁹Remove from me the way of falsehood and unfaithfulness [to You], and graciously impart Your law to me.

³⁰I have chosen the way of truth and faithfulness; Your ordinances have I set before me.

³¹I cleave to Your testimonies; O Lord, put me not to shame!

³²I will [not merely walk, but] run the way of Your commandments, when You give me a heart that is willing.