119:14 I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules 1
as if 2 they were riches of all kinds. 3
119:24 Yes, I find delight in your rules;
they give me guidance. 4
119:35 Guide me 5 in the path of your commands,
for I delight to walk in it. 6
119:47 I will find delight in your commands,
which I love.
119:70 Their hearts are calloused, 7
but I find delight in your law.
119:77 May I experience your compassion, 8 so I might live!
For I find delight in your law.
119:92 If I had not found encouragement in your law, 9
I would have died in my sorrow. 10
40:8 I want to do what pleases you, 11 my God.
Your law dominates my thoughts.” 12
1 tn Heb “in the way of your rules.”
2 tn Heb “as upon,” meaning “as if” (see 2 Chr 32:19).
3 tn Heb “all wealth.” The phrase refers to all kinds of wealth and riches. See Prov 1:13; 6:31; 24:4; Ezek 27:12, 18.
4 tn Heb “men of my counsel.” That is, God’s rules are like advisers to the psalmist, for they teach him how to live in a godly manner that refutes the accusations of his enemies.
5 tn Or “make me walk.”
6 tn Heb “for in it I delight.”
7 tn Heb “their heart is insensitive like fat.”
8 tn Heb “and may your compassion come to me.”
9 tn Heb “if your law had not been my delight.”
10 tn Or “my suffering.”
11 tn Or “your will.”
12 tn Heb “your law [is] in the midst of my inner parts.” The “inner parts” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s thought life and moral decision making.
13 tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”
14 sn A quotation from Jer 31:33.
15 tn Grk “and.”
16 sn A quotation from Jer 31:34.