Psalms 119:26-27

119:26 I told you about my ways ¹  and you answered me.

Teach me your statutes!

119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! ² 

Then I can meditate ³  on your marvelous teachings. ⁴ 

Psalms 119:33

ה (He)

119:33 Teach me, O Lord, the lifestyle prescribed by your statutes, ⁵ 

so that I might observe it continually. ⁶ 

Psalms 119:64

119:64 O Lord, your loyal love fills the earth.

Teach me your statutes!

Psalms 119:66

119:66 Teach me proper discernment ⁷  and understanding!

For I consider your commands to be reliable. ⁸ 

Psalms 119:68

119:68 You are good and you do good.

Teach me your statutes!

Psalms 119:71-72

119:71 It was good for me to suffer,

so that I might learn your statutes.

119:72 The law you have revealed is more important to me

than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. ⁹ 

Psalms 119:108

119:108 O Lord, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! ¹⁰ 

Teach me your regulations!

Psalms 119:124

119:124 Show your servant your loyal love! ¹¹ 

Teach me your statutes!

[119:26]  ¹ tn Heb “my ways I proclaimed.”

[119:27]  ² tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”

[119:27]  ³ tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).

[119:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “the way of your statutes.”

[119:33]  ⁶ tn Heb “and I will keep it to the end.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative. The Hebrew term עֵקֶב (’eqev) is understood to mean “end” here. Another option is to take עֵקֶב (’eqev) as meaning “reward” here (see Ps 19:11) and to translate, “so that I might observe it and be rewarded.”

[119:66]  ⁷ tn Heb “goodness of taste.” Here “taste” refers to moral and ethical discernment.

[119:66]  ⁸ tn Heb “for I believe in your commands.”

[119:72]  ⁹ tn Heb “better to me [is] the law of your mouth than thousands of gold and silver.”

[119:108]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “of my mouth.”

[119:124]  ¹¹ tn Heb “do with your servant according to your loyal love.”