119:15 I will meditate on 1 your precepts
and focus 2 on your behavior. 3
119:117 Support me, so that I will be delivered.
Then I will focus 4 on your statutes continually.
145:5 I will focus on your honor and majestic splendor,
and your amazing deeds! 5
1 tn The cohortative verbal forms in this verse express the psalmist’s resolve.
2 tn Heb “gaze [at].”
3 tn Heb “ways” (referring figuratively to God’s behavior here).
4 tn Or “and that I might focus.” The two cohortatives with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the imperative at the beginning of the verse.
5 tn Heb “the splendor of the glory of your majesty, and the matters of your amazing deeds I will ponder.”