119:12 You deserve praise, 1 O Lord!
Teach me your statutes!
119:26 I told you about my ways 2 and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes!
119:130 Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. 3
They give 4 insight to the untrained. 5
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119:169 Listen to my cry for help, 6 O Lord!
Give me insight by your word!
1 tn Heb “[are] blessed.”
2 tn Heb “my ways I proclaimed.”
3 tn Heb “the doorway of your words gives light.” God’s “words” refer here to the instructions in his law (see vv. 9, 57).
4 tn Heb “it [i.e., the doorway] gives.”
5 tn Or “the [morally] naive,” that is, the one who is young and still in the process of learning right from wrong and distinguishing wisdom from folly. See Pss 19:7; 116:6.
6 tn Heb “may my cry approach before you.”