New Revised Standard Version
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my misery.

Contemporary English Version
If I had not found happiness in obeying your Law, I would have died in misery.

New American Bible
Had your law not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.

Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.

thy law

Psalm 119:24,77,143 For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel. . . .

Romans 15:4 For what things soever were written were written for our learning: that, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures, we might have hope.

I should

Psalm 27:13 I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 94:18,19 If I said: My foot is moved: thy mercy, O Lord, assisted me. . . .

Proverbs 6:22,23 Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: . . .