Psalms 119:66

119:66 Teach me proper discernment ¹  and understanding!

For I consider your commands to be reliable. ² 

Psalms 34:1

Psalm 34 ³ 

Written by David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, causing the king to send him away. ⁴ 

34:1 I will praise ⁵  the Lord at all times;

my mouth will continually praise him. ⁶ 

[119:66]  ¹ tn Heb “goodness of taste.” Here “taste” refers to moral and ethical discernment.

[119:66]  ² tn Heb “for I believe in your commands.”

[34:1]  ³ sn Psalm 34. In this song of thanksgiving the psalmist praises God for delivering him from distress. He encourages others to be loyal to the Lord, tells them how to please God, and assures them that the Lord protects his servants. The psalm is an acrostic; vv. 1-21 begin with successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. (Verse 6 begins with the letter he (ה) and v. 7 with the letter zayin (ז). The letter vav (ו), which comes between ה and ז, seems to be omitted, although it does appear at the beginning of v. 6b. The final verse of the psalm, which begins with the letter pe (פ), is outside the acrostic scheme.

[34:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “By David, when he changed his sense before Abimelech and he drove him away and he went.”

[34:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “bless.”

[34:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “continually [will] his praise [be] in my mouth.”