119:16 I find delight 1 in your statutes;
I do not forget your instructions. 2
119:35 Guide me 3 in the path of your commands,
for I delight to walk in it. 4
40:8 I want to do what pleases you, 5 my God.
Your law dominates my thoughts.” 6
1 tn The imperfects in this verse emphasize the attitude the psalmist maintains toward God’s law. Another option is to translate with the future tense, “I will find delight…I will not forget.”
2 tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
3 tn Or “make me walk.”
4 tn Heb “for in it I delight.”
5 tn Or “your will.”
6 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.