Mazmur 34:12

34:12 Do you want to really live? ¹ 

Would you love to live a long, happy life? ² 

Mazmur 119:77

119:77 May I experience your compassion, ³  so I might live!

For I find delight in your law.

Mazmur 119:93

119:93 I will never forget your precepts,

for by them you have revived me.

Mazmur 119:156

119:156 Your compassion is great, O Lord.

Revive me, as you typically do! ⁴ 

Mazmur 128:5

128:5 May the Lord bless you ⁵  from Zion,

that you might see ⁶  Jerusalem ⁷  prosper

all the days of your life,

[34:12]  ¹ tn Heb “Who is the man who desires life?” The rhetorical question is used to grab the audience’s attention. “Life” probably refers here to quality of life, not just physical existence or even duration of life. See the following line.

[34:12]  ² tn Heb “[Who] loves days to see good?”

[119:77]  ³ tn Heb “and may your compassion come to me.”

[119:156]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to your customs.”

[128:5]  ⁵ tn The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive of prayer (note the imperatives that are subordinated to this clause in vv. 5b-6a). Having described the blessings that typically come to the godly, the psalmist concludes by praying that this ideal may become reality for the representative godly man being addressed.

[128:5]  ⁶ tn The imperative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding jussive.

[128:5]  ⁷ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.