119:10 With all my heart I seek you.
Do not allow me to stray from your commands!
119:110 The wicked lay a trap for me,
but I do not wander from your precepts.
119:118 You despise 1 all who stray from your statutes,
for they are deceptive and unreliable. 2
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.”
2 tn Heb “for their deceit [is] falsehood.”