119:16 I find delight 1 in your statutes;
I do not forget your instructions. 2
119:77 May I experience your compassion, 3 so I might live!
For I find delight in your law.
119:92 If I had not found encouragement in your law, 4
I would have died in my sorrow. 5
119:143 Distress and hardship confront 6 me,
yet I find delight in your commands.
119:162 I rejoice in your instructions,
like one who finds much plunder. 7
27:10 Will he find delight 8 in the Almighty?
Will he call out to God at all times?
6:10 I answered, 9
“Who would listen
if I spoke to them and warned them? 10
Their ears are so closed 11
that they cannot hear!
Indeed, 12 what the Lord says is offensive to them.
They do not like it at all. 13
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 Heb “and may your compassion come to me.”
4 tn Heb “if your law had not been my delight.”
5 tn Or “my suffering.”
6 tn Heb “find.”
7 tn Heb “like one who finds great plunder.” See Judg 5:30. The image is that of a victorious warrior who finds a large amount of plunder on the field of battle.
8 tn See the note on 22:26 where the same verb is employed.
9 tn These words are not in the text but are supplied in the translation for clarity.
10 tn Or “To whom shall I speak? To whom shall I give warning? Who will listen?” Heb “Unto whom shall I speak and give warning that they may listen?”
11 tn Heb “are uncircumcised.”
12 tn Heb “Behold!”
13 tn Heb “They do not take pleasure in it.”