Psalms 119:24

119:24 Yes, I find delight in your rules;

they give me guidance. ¹ 

Psalms 119:52

119:52 I remember your ancient regulations, ² 

O Lord, and console myself. ³ 

Deuteronomy 11:18-20

11:18 Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, ⁴  and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols ⁵  on your forehead. 11:19 Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, ⁶  as you lie down, and as you get up. 11:20 Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates

¹ 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.

² tn Heb “I remember your regulations from of old.” The prepositional phrase “from of old” apparently modifies “your regulations,” alluding to the fact that God revealed them to Israel in the distant past. Another option is to understand the prepositional phrase as modifying the verb, in which case one might translate, “I have long remembered your regulations.”

³ tn Or “find comfort.”

⁴ tn Heb “heart and soul” or “heart and being.” See note on the word “being” in Deut 6:5.

⁵ tn On the Hebrew term טוֹטָפֹת (totafot, “reminders”), cf. Deut 6:4-9.

⁶ tn Or “as you are away on a journey” (cf. NRSV, TEV, NLT); NAB “at home and abroad.”