Mazmur 17:5

17:5 I carefully obey your commands; ¹ 

I do not deviate from them. ² 

Mazmur 119:4

119:4 You demand that your precepts

be carefully kept. ³ 

Mazmur 119:20

119:20 I desperately long to know ⁴ 

your regulations at all times.

Mazmur 119:28

119:28 I collapse ⁵  from grief.

Sustain me by your word! ⁶ 

Mazmur 119:35-36

119:35 Guide me ⁷  in the path of your commands,

for I delight to walk in it. ⁸ 

119:36 Give me a desire for your rules, ⁹ 

rather than for wealth gained unjustly. ¹⁰ 

Mazmur 119:56

119:56 This ¹¹  has been my practice,

for I observe your precepts.

Mazmur 119:68

119:68 You are good and you do good.

Teach me your statutes!

Mazmur 119:138-139

119:138 The rules you impose are just, ¹² 

and absolutely reliable.

119:139 My zeal ¹³  consumes ¹⁴  me,

for my enemies forget your instructions. ¹⁵ 

Mazmur 119:167

119:167 I keep your rules;

I love them greatly.

[17:5]  ¹ tn Heb “my steps stay firm in your tracks.” The infinitive absolute functions here as a finite verb (see GKC 347 §113.gg). God’s “tracks” are his commands, i.e., the moral pathways he has prescribed for the psalmist.

[17:5]  ² tn Heb “my footsteps do not stagger.”

[119:4]  ³ tn Heb “you, you commanded your precepts, to keep, very much.”

[119:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “my soul languishes for longing for.”

[119:28]  ⁵ tn Some translate “my soul weeps,” taking the verb דָלַף (dalaf) from a root meaning “to drip; to drop” (BDB 196 s.v. דֶּלַף). On the basis of cognate evidence from Arabic and Akkadian, HALOT 223 s.v. II דלף proposes a homonymic root here, meaning “be sleepless.” Following L. C. Allen (Psalms 101-150 [WBC], 127, 135) the translation assumes that the verb is cognate with Ugaritic dlp, “to collapse; to crumple” in CTA 2 iv. 17, 26. See G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 44, 144.

[119:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “according to your word.” Many medieval Hebrew mss read the plural “your words.”

[119:35]  ⁷ tn Or “make me walk.”

[119:35]  ⁸ tn Heb “for in it I delight.”

[119:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “turn my heart to your rules.”

[119:36]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and not unjust gain.”

[119:56]  ¹¹ tn Heb “this has been to me.” The demonstrative “this” (1) refers back to the practices mentioned in vv. 54-55, or (2) looks forward to the statement in the second line, in which case the כִּי (ki) at the beginning of the second line should be translated “that.”

[119:138]  ¹² tn Heb “you commanded [in] justice your rules.”

[119:139]  ¹³ tn or “zeal.”

[119:139]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “destroys,” in a hyperbolic sense.

[119:139]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your words.”