Psalms 119:4-5

119:4 You demand that your precepts

be carefully kept. 1 

119:5 If only I were predisposed 2 

to keep your statutes!

Psalms 119:32

119:32 I run along the path of your commands,

for you enable me to do so. 3 

1 tn Heb “you, you commanded your precepts, to keep, very much.”

2 tn Heb “if only my ways were established.”

3 tn Heb “for you make wide my heart.” The “heart” is viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s volition and understanding. The Lord gives the psalmist the desire and moral understanding that are foundational to the willing obedience depicted metaphorically in the preceding line. In Isa 60:5 the expression “your heart will be wide” means “your heart will swell with pride,” but here the nuance appears to be different.