Psalms 119:6-8

119:6 Then I would not be ashamed,

if ¹  I were focused on ²  all your commands.

119:7 I will give you sincere thanks, ³ 

when I learn your just regulations.

119:8 I will keep your statutes.

Do not completely abandon me! ⁴ 

Psalms 119:97

מ (Mem)

119:97 O how I love your law!

All day long I meditate on it.

Psalms 119:111

119:111 I claim your rules as my permanent possession,

for they give me joy. ⁵ 

Psalms 119:159

119:159 See how I love your precepts!

O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!

[119:6]  ¹ tn Or “when.”

[119:6]  ² tn Heb “I gaze at.”

[119:7]  ³ tn Heb “I will give you thanks with an upright heart.”

[119:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “do not abandon me to excess.” For other uses of the phrase עַד מְאֹד (’ad mÿ’od, “to excess”), see Ps 38:6, 8.

[119:111]  ⁵ tn Heb “for the joy of my heart [are] they.”