LORD, you have dealt well with your servant,

your promise is faithful and just.

Instruct me in judgment and knowledge,

for in your commandments I trust.

[Sing to the Lord 119:65-72]

2. Before my affliction I wandered,

but now your good word I obey.

O LORD, you are good and you do good,

now teach me your statutes, I pray.

3. The proud have assailed me with slander;

your precepts shall still be my guide.

Your law is my joy and my treasure,

though sinners may boast in their pride.

4. Affliction has been for my profit,

that I to your statutes may hold.

Your law to my soul is more precious

than thousands of silver and gold.

Sing to the Lord 119:65-72

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Text: Psalter Hymnal, 1957, alt.

Tune: Dick L. Van Halsema, 1954, Psalter Hymnal, 1957