ג (Gimel)
119:17 Be kind to your servant!
Then I will live 1 and keep 2 your instructions. 3
119:18 Open 4 my eyes so I can truly see 5
the marvelous things in your law!
1 tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a cohortative indicating purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
2 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the imperative that begins the verse.
3 tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
4 tn Heb “uncover.” The verb form גַּל (gal) is an apocopated Piel imperative from גָּלָה (galah, see GKC 214 §75.cc).
5 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.