Mazmur 119:141

119:141 I am insignificant and despised,

yet I do not forget your precepts.

Mazmur 119:153

ר (Resh)

119:153 See my pain and rescue me!

For I do not forget your law.

Mazmur 119:176

119:176 I have wandered off like a lost sheep. ¹ 

Come looking for your servant,

for I do not forget your commands.

[119:176]  ¹ tn Heb “I stray like a lost sheep.” It is possible that the point of the metaphor is vulnerability: The psalmist, who is threatened by his enemies, feels as vulnerable as a straying, lost sheep. This would not suggest, however, that he has wandered from God’s path (see the second half of the verse, as well as v. 110).