Psalms 119:43-44

Context

119:43 Do not completely deprive me of a truthful testimony,¹

for I await your justice.

119:44 Then I will keep² your law continually

now and for all time.³

[119:43] ¹tn Heb “do not snatch from my mouth a word of truth to excess.” The psalmist wants to be able to give a reliable testimony about the Lord’s loyal love (vv. 41-42), but if God does not intervene, the psalmist will be deprived of doing so, for the evidence of such love (i.e., deliverance) will be lacking.

[119:44] ²tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the negated jussive (see v. 43).

[119:44] ³tn Or “forever and ever.”