25:4 Make me understand your ways, O Lord!
Teach me your paths! 1
119:12 You deserve praise, 2 O Lord!
Teach me your statutes!
119:26 I told you about my ways 3 and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes!
119:64 O Lord, your loyal love fills the earth.
Teach me your statutes!
119:68 You are good and you do good.
Teach me your statutes!
119:124 Show your servant your loyal love! 4
Teach me your statutes!
119:66 Teach me proper discernment 5 and understanding!
For I consider your commands to be reliable. 6
119:108 O Lord, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! 7
Teach me your regulations!
143:10 Teach me to do what pleases you, 8
for you are my God.
May your kind presence 9
lead me 10 into a level land. 11
1 sn Teach me your paths. In this context the
2 tn Heb “[are] blessed.”
3 tn Heb “my ways I proclaimed.”
4 tn Heb “do with your servant according to your loyal love.”
5 tn Heb “goodness of taste.” Here “taste” refers to moral and ethical discernment.
6 tn Heb “for I believe in your commands.”
6 tn Heb “of my mouth.”
7 tn Or “your will.” See Ps 40:8.
8 tn Heb “your good spirit.” God’s “spirit” may refer here to his presence (see the note on the word “presence” in Ps 139:7) or to his personal Spirit (see Ps 51:10).
9 tn The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive. Taking the statement as a prayer fits well with the petitionary tone of vv. 7-10a.
10 sn A level land (where one can walk free of obstacles) here symbolizes divine blessing and protection. See Pss 26:12 and 27:11 for similar imagery.