119:18 Open 1 my eyes so I can truly see 2
the marvelous things in your law!
119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! 3
Then I can meditate 4 on your marvelous teachings. 5
י (Yod)
119:73 Your hands made me and formed me. 6
Give me understanding so that I might learn 7 your commands.
1 tn Heb “uncover.” The verb form גַּל (gal) is an apocopated Piel imperative from גָּלָה (galah, see GKC 214 §75.cc).
2 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
3 tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”
4 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
5 tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).
6 tn Heb “made me and established me.” The two verbs also appear together in Deut 32:6, where God, compared to a father, is said to have “made and established” Israel.
7 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.