119:38 Confirm to your servant your promise, 1
which you made to the one who honors you. 2
119:86 All your commands are reliable.
I am pursued without reason. 3 Help me!
119:127 For this reason 4 I love your commands
more than gold, even purest gold.
צ (Tsade)
119:137 You are just, O Lord,
and your judgments are fair.
1 tn Heb “word.”
2 tn Heb “which [is] for your fear,” that is, the promise made to those who exhibit fear of God.
3 sn God’s commands are a reliable guide to right and wrong. By keeping them the psalmist is doing what is right, yet he is still persecuted.
4 tn “For this reason” connects logically with the statement made in v. 126. Because the judgment the psalmist fears (see vv. 119-120) is imminent, he remains loyal to God’s law.