119:27 Help me to understand what your precepts mean! 1
Then I can meditate 2 on your marvelous teachings. 3
מ (Mem)
119:97 O how I love your law!
All day long I meditate on it.
119:98 Your commandments 4 make me wiser than my enemies,
for I am always aware of them.
119:99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
for I meditate on your rules.
119:100 I am more discerning than those older than I,
for I observe your precepts.
1 tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”
2 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
3 tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).
4 tn The plural form needs to be revocalized as a singular in order to agree with the preceding singular verb and the singular pronoun in the next line. The