119:16 I find delight 1 in your statutes;
I do not forget your instructions. 2
119:106 I have vowed and solemnly sworn
to keep your just regulations.
119:115 Turn away from me, you evil men,
so that I can observe 3 the commands of my God. 4
1 tn The imperfects in this verse emphasize the attitude the psalmist maintains toward God’s law. Another option is to translate with the future tense, “I will find delight…I will not forget.”
2 tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
3 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
4 tn The psalmist has already declared that he observes God’s commands despite persecution, so here the idea must be “so that I might observe the commands of my God unhindered by threats.”