ו (Vav)
119:41 May I experience your loyal love, 1 O Lord,
and your deliverance, 2 as you promised. 3
40:16 May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you!
May those who love to experience 4 your deliverance say continually, 5
“May the Lord be praised!” 6
71:15 I will tell about your justice,
and all day long proclaim your salvation, 7
though I cannot fathom its full extent. 8
1 tn Heb “and may your loyal love come to me.”
2 tn Or “salvation” (so many English versions).
3 tn Heb “according to your word.”
4 tn Heb “those who love,” which stands metonymically for its cause, the experience of being delivered by the
5 tn The three prefixed verbal forms prior to the quotation are understood as jussives. The psalmist balances out his imprecation against his enemies with a prayer of blessing upon the godly.
6 tn The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive, “may the
7 tn Heb “my mouth declares your vindication, all the day your deliverance.”
8 tn Heb “though I do not know [the] numbers,” that is, the tally of God’s just and saving acts. HALOT 768 s.v. סְפֹרוֹת understands the plural noun to mean “the art of writing.”