119:26 I told you about my ways 1 and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes!
119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! 2
Then I can meditate 3 on your marvelous teachings. 4
ה (He)
119:33 Teach me, O Lord, the lifestyle prescribed by your statutes, 5
so that I might observe it continually. 6
119:64 O Lord, your loyal love fills the earth.
Teach me your statutes!
119:66 Teach me proper discernment 7 and understanding!
For I consider your commands to be reliable. 8
119:68 You are good and you do good.
Teach me your statutes!
119:71 It was good for me to suffer,
so that I might learn your statutes.
119:72 The law you have revealed is more important to me
than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. 9
119:108 O Lord, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! 10
Teach me your regulations!
119:124 Show your servant your loyal love! 11
Teach me your statutes!
1 tn Heb “my ways I proclaimed.”
2 tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”
3 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
4 tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).
5 tn Heb “the way of your statutes.”
6 tn Heb “and I will keep it to the end.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative. The Hebrew term עֵקֶב (’eqev) is understood to mean “end” here. Another option is to take עֵקֶב (’eqev) as meaning “reward” here (see Ps 19:11) and to translate, “so that I might observe it and be rewarded.”
7 tn Heb “goodness of taste.” Here “taste” refers to moral and ethical discernment.
8 tn Heb “for I believe in your commands.”
9 tn Heb “better to me [is] the law of your mouth than thousands of gold and silver.”
10 tn Heb “of my mouth.”
11 tn Heb “do with your servant according to your loyal love.”