Mazmur 119:5-8

119:5 If only I were predisposed ¹ 

to keep your statutes!

119:6 Then I would not be ashamed,

if ²  I were focused on ³  all your commands.

119:7 I will give you sincere thanks, ⁴ 

when I learn your just regulations.

119:8 I will keep your statutes.

Do not completely abandon me! ⁵ 

[119:5]  ¹ tn Heb “if only my ways were established.”

[119:6]  ² tn Or “when.”

[119:6]  ³ tn Heb “I gaze at.”

[119:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “I will give you thanks with an upright heart.”

[119:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “do not abandon me to excess.” For other uses of the phrase עַד מְאֹד (’ad mÿ’od, “to excess”), see Ps 38:6, 8.