Mazmur 119:15

119:15 I will meditate on ¹  your precepts

and focus ²  on your behavior. ³ 

Mazmur 119:23

119:23 Though rulers plot and slander me, ⁴ 

your servant meditates on your statutes.

Mazmur 119:27

119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! ⁵ 

Then I can meditate ⁶  on your marvelous teachings. ⁷ 

Mazmur 119:148

119:148 My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours,

so that I can meditate on your word.

[119:15]  ¹ tn The cohortative verbal forms in this verse express the psalmist’s resolve.

[119:15]  ² tn Heb “gaze [at].”

[119:15]  ³ tn Heb “ways” (referring figuratively to God’s behavior here).

[119:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “though rulers sit, about me they talk together.” (For another example of the Niphal of דָּבַר (davar) used with a suffixed form of the preposition ב, see Ezek 33:30.)

[119:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”

[119:27]  ⁶ tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).