Yahweh is my portion;

I have promised to keep Your words.

I have sought to please Your face with all my heart;

Be gracious to me according to Your word.

I thought upon my ways

And I turned my feet to Your testimonies.

I hastened and did not delay

To keep Your commandments.

The cords of the wicked have encircled me,

But I have not forgotten Your law.

At midnight I shall rise to give thanks to You

Because of Your righteous judgments.

I am a companion of all those who fear You,

And of those who keep Your precepts.

The earth, O Yahweh, is full of Your lovingkindness;

Teach me Your statutes.

— Psalm 119:57-64 LSB