119:12 You deserve praise, 1 O Lord!
Teach me your statutes!
119:26 I told you about my ways 2 and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes!
119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! 3
Then I can meditate 4 on your marvelous teachings. 5
1 tn Heb “[are] blessed.”
2 tn Heb “my ways I proclaimed.”
3 tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”
4 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
5 tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).