Psalms 119:15

119:15 I will meditate on ¹  your precepts

and focus ²  on your behavior. ³ 

Psalms 119:23

119:23 Though rulers plot and slander me, ⁴ 

your servant meditates on your statutes.

[119:15]  ¹ tn The cohortative verbal forms in this verse express the psalmist’s resolve.

[119:15]  ² tn Heb “gaze [at].”

[119:15]  ³ tn Heb “ways” (referring figuratively to God’s behavior here).

[119:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “though rulers sit, about me they talk together.” (For another example of the Niphal of דָּבַר (davar) used with a suffixed form of the preposition ב, see Ezek 33:30.)