156. Your compassion, Lord, is great; preserve my life according to your laws.
157. Many are the foes who persecute me, but I have not turned from your statutes.
158. I look on the faithless with loathing, for they do not obey your word.
159. See how I love your precepts; preserve my life, Lord, in accordance with your love.
160. All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal.
161. Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles at your word.