The beginning of Your word is truth, and every one of its righteous ordinances endures forever, completing the Resh stanza with affirmation of Scripture's fundamental truthfulness and permanence. This verse employs "beginning" to mean "sum" or "essential character"—God's word is fundamentally true at its core. The assertion that every ordinance is righteous resists allowing any portion of God's law to be dismissed as culturally conditioned or morally problematic; all commandments reflect divine justice. The eternity of God's righteous ordinances distinguishes them from human laws that change with circumstance and time. This verse provides intellectual foundation for the entire stanza's petitions: confidence that God will preserve and revive the covenant-keeper rests upon certainty that God's law itself endures. The Resh stanza concludes with emphasis on the objective, eternal character of revelation.

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