119:43 Do not completely deprive me of a truthful testimony, 1
for I await your justice.
119:44 Then I will keep 2 your law continually
now and for all time. 3
119:45 I will be secure, 4
for I seek your precepts.
119:46 I will speak 5 about your regulations before kings
and not be ashamed.
1 tn Heb “do not snatch from my mouth a word of truth to excess.” The psalmist wants to be able to give a reliable testimony about the
2 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the negated jussive (see v. 43).
3 tn Or “forever and ever.”
4 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.”
5 tn The series of four cohortatives with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive in vv. 46-48 list further consequences of the anticipated positive divine response to the request made in v. 43.