³⁴ Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
    and observe it with my whole heart.^(A)

⁸ Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you turn and destroy me.^[a](A)

⁸ The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
    your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever.
    Do not forsake the work of your hands.^(A)