119:32 I run along the path of your commands,
for you enable me to do so. 1
119:36 Give me a desire for your rules, 2
rather than for wealth gained unjustly. 3
119:44 Then I will keep 4 your law continually
now and for all time. 5
119:45 I will be secure, 6
for I seek your precepts.
119:131 I open my mouth and pant,
because I long 7 for your commands.
119:159 See how I love your precepts!
O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!
119:173 May your hand help me,
for I choose to obey 8 your precepts.
51:10 Create for me a pure heart, O God! 9
Renew a resolute spirit within me! 10
3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates 20 the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he? 21 (I am speaking in human terms.) 22
1 tn Heb “for you make wide my heart.” The “heart” is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s volition and understanding. The
2 tn Heb “turn my heart to your rules.”
3 tn Heb “and not unjust gain.”
4 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the negated jussive (see v. 43).
5 tn Or “forever and ever.”
6 tn Heb “and I will walk about in a wide place.” The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive gives a further consequence of the anticipated positive divine response (see vv. 43-44). Another option is to take the cohortative as expressing the psalmist’s request. In this case one could translate, “and please give me security.”
7 tn The verb occurs only here in the OT.
8 tn The words “to obey” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.
9 sn The heart is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s motives and moral character.
10 tn Heb “and a reliable spirit renew in my inner being.”
11 tn Heb “with the house of Israel.” All commentators agree that the term here refers to both the whole nation which was divided into the house of Israel and the house of Judah in v. 30.
12 tn Heb “after those days.” Commentators are generally agreed that this refers to the return from exile and the repopulation of the land referred to in vv. 27-28 and not to something subsequent to the time mentioned in v. 30. This is the sequencing that is also presupposed in other new covenant passages such as Deut 30:1-6; Ezek 11:17-20; 36:24-28.
13 tn Heb “Oracle of the
14 tn Heb “‘But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after these days:’ says the
15 tn Heb “in their inward parts.” The Hebrew word here refers to the seat of the thoughts, emotions, and decisions (Jer 9:8 [9:7 HT]). It is essentially synonymous with “heart” in Hebrew psychological terms.
16 tn The words “and minds” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation to bring the English psychology more into line with the Hebrew where the “heart” is the center both of knowing/thinking/reflecting and deciding/willing.
17 sn Compare Jer 24:7; 30:22; 31:1 and see the study note on 30:2.
18 tn Grk “the,” with the article used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
19 tn Grk “husband.”
20 tn Or “shows clearly.”
21 tn Grk “That God is not unjust to inflict wrath, is he?”
22 sn The same expression occurs in Gal 3:15, and similar phrases in Rom 6:19 and 1 Cor 9:8.
23 tc Some
24 tc ‡ Most