Psalms 119:27

119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! ¹ 

Then I can meditate ²  on your marvelous teachings. ³ 

Psalms 119:40

119:40 Look, I long for your precepts.

Revive me with your deliverance! ⁴ 

Psalms 119:173

119:173 May your hand help me,

for I choose to obey ⁵  your precepts.

[119:27]  ¹ tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”

[119:27]  ² tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

[119:27]  ³ tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).

[119:40]  ⁴ tn Or “righteousness.”

[119:173]  ⁵ tn The words “to obey” are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons and for clarity.