38 Keep your promise to me. Then other people will have respect for you.
39 Please don't let me be put to shame. Your laws are good.
40 I really want to follow your rules. Keep me alive, because you do what is right.
41 Lord, show me your faithful love. Save me as you have promised.
42 Then I will answer those who make fun of me, because I trust in your word.
43 Help me always to tell the truth about how faithful you are. I have put my hope in your laws.
44 I will always obey your law, for ever and ever.