119:5 If only I were predisposed 1
to keep your statutes!
119:34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law,
and keep it with all my heart. 2
119:35 Guide me 3 in the path of your commands,
for I delight to walk in it. 4
י (Yod)
119:73 Your hands made me and formed me. 5
Give me understanding so that I might learn 6 your commands.
1 tn Heb “if only my ways were established.”
2 tn The two prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the introductory imperative.
3 tn Or “make me walk.”
4 tn Heb “for in it I delight.”
5 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.
6 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.