Caravans ¹  turn aside from their routes; they go ²  into the wasteland ³  and perish. ⁴ 

¹ He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’

Make me understand your ways, O Lord! Teach me your paths! ¹ 

I will meditate on ¹  your precepts and focus ²  on your behavior. ³ 

You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; ¹  you are aware of everything I do. ² 

to guard ¹  the paths of the righteous ²  and to protect ³  the way of his pious ones. ⁴ 

who leave ¹  the upright ²  paths to walk on the dark ³  ways,

whose paths ¹  are morally crooked, ²  and who are devious ³  in their ways;

Acknowledge ¹  him in all your ways, ²  and he will make your paths straight. ³ 

I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,

calling out ¹  to those who are passing by her ²  in the way, ³  who go straight ⁴  on their way.

lest you learn ¹  his ways and entangle yourself in a snare. ² 

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael caravans ¹  disappeared; ²  travelers ³  had to go on winding side roads.

The caravans of Tema ¹  looked intently ²  for these streams; ³  the traveling merchants ⁴  of Sheba hoped for them.

Such is the destiny ¹  of all who forget God; the hope of the godless ²  perishes,

For the years that lie ahead are few, ¹  and then I will go on the way of no return. ² 

He has blocked ¹  my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness ²  over my paths.

Will you keep to the old path ¹  that evil men have walked –

But ¹  no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler ²  –

For he repays a person for his work, ¹  and according to the conduct of a person, he causes the consequences to find him. ²