119:5 If only I were predisposed 1
to keep your statutes!
119:6 Then I would not be ashamed,
if 2 I were focused on 3 all your commands.
119:7 I will give you sincere thanks, 4
when I learn your just regulations.
119:8 I will keep your statutes.
Do not completely abandon me! 5
1 tn Heb “if only my ways were established.”
2 tn Or “when.”
3 tn Heb “I gaze at.”
4 tn Heb “I will give you thanks with an upright heart.”
5 tn Heb “do not abandon me to excess.” For other uses of the phrase עַד מְאֹד (’ad mÿ’od, “to excess”), see Ps 38:6, 8.