119:77 May I experience your compassion, 1 so I might live!
For I find delight in your law.
119:116 Sustain me as you promised, 2 so that I will live. 3
Do not disappoint me! 4
119:144 Your rules remain just. 5
Give me insight so that I can live. 6
1 tn Heb “and may your compassion come to me.”
2 tn Heb “according to your word.”
3 tn The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
4 tn Heb “do not make me ashamed of my hope.” After the Hebrew verb בּוֹשׁ (bosh, “to be ashamed”) the preposition מִן (min, “from”) often introduces the reason for shame.
3 tn Heb “just are your rules forever.”
4 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.