Psalms 105:17

105:17 He sent a man ahead of them ¹  –

Joseph was sold as a servant.

Psalms 119:105

נ (Nun)

119:105 Your word ²  is a lamp to walk by,

and a light to illumine my path. ³ 

¹ tn After the reference to the famine in v. 16, v. 17 flashes back to events that preceded the famine (see Gen 37).

² tn Many medieval Hebrew mss read the plural (“words”).

³ tn Heb “[is] a lamp for my foot and a light for my path.”