119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! 1
Then I can meditate 2 on your marvelous teachings. 3
119:40 Look, I long for your precepts.
Revive me with your deliverance! 4
119:173 May your hand help me,
for I choose to obey 5 your precepts.
1 tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”
2 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
3 tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).
4 tn Or “righteousness.”
5 tn The words “to obey” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.