Psalms 119:118

119:118 You despise ¹  all who stray from your statutes,

for they are deceptive and unreliable. ² 

[119:118]  ¹ tn The Hebrew verb סָלָה (salah, “to disdain”) occurs only here and in Lam 1:15. Cognate usage in Aramaic and Akkadian, as well as Lam 1:15, suggest it may have a concrete nuance of “to throw away.”

[119:118]  ² tn Heb “for their deceit [is] falsehood.”