⁹⁷ Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.

⁹⁸ Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.

⁹⁸ I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.

¹⁰⁰ I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.

¹⁰¹ I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.

¹⁰² I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.

¹⁰³ How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

¹⁰⁴ I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.

¹ Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

² He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.

³ And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’

⁴ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think,

⁵ yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”

⁶ And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.

⁷ And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?

⁸ I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”