Psalms 119:174

Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.