119:144 Your rules remain just. 1
Give me insight so that I can live. 2
119:151 You are near, O Lord,
and all your commands are reliable. 3
119:152 I learned long ago that
you ordained your rules to last. 4
1 tn Heb “just are your rules forever.”
2 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
3 tn Or “truth.”
4 tn Heb “long ago I knew concerning your rules, that forever you established them.” See v. 89 for the same idea. The translation assumes that the preposition מִן (min) prefixed to “your rules” introduces the object of the verb יָדַע (yada’), as in 1 Sam 23:23. Another option is that the preposition indicates source, in which case one might translate, “Long ago I realized from your rules that forever you established them” (cf. NIV, NRSV).