Psalms 119:4

119:4 You demand that your precepts

be carefully kept. ¹ 

Psalms 119:45

119:45 I will be secure, ² 

for I seek your precepts.

Psalms 119:56

119:56 This ³  has been my practice,

for I observe your precepts.

Psalms 119:141

119:141 I am insignificant and despised,

yet I do not forget your precepts.

[119:4]  ¹ tn Heb “you, you commanded your precepts, to keep, very much.”

[119:45]  ² tn Heb “and I will walk about in a wide place.” The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive gives a further consequence of the anticipated positive divine response (see vv. 43-44). Another option is to take the cohortative as expressing the psalmist’s request. In this case one could translate, “and please give me security.”

[119:56]  ³ tn Heb “this has been to me.” The demonstrative “this” (1) refers back to the practices mentioned in vv. 54-55, or (2) looks forward to the statement in the second line, in which case the כִּי (ki) at the beginning of the second line should be translated “that.”