Psalms 119:8

119:8 I will keep your statutes.

Do not completely abandon me! ¹ 

Psalms 119:17

ג (Gimel)

119:17 Be kind to your servant!

Then I will live ²  and keep ³  your instructions. ⁴ 

Psalms 119:34

119:34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law,

and keep it with all my heart. ⁵ 

[119:8]  ¹ 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.

[119:17]  ² tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a cohortative indicating purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:17]  ³ tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the imperative that begins the verse.

[119:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew mss as well as several ancient versions read the plural here.

[119:34]  ⁵ tn The two prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the introductory imperative.