119:6 Then I would not be ashamed,
if 1 I were focused on 2 all your commands.
119:45 I will be secure, 3
for I seek your precepts.
119:59 I consider my actions 4
and follow 5 your rules.
119:68 You are good and you do good.
Teach me your statutes!
1 tn Or “when.”
2 tn Heb “I gaze at.”
3 tn Heb “and I will walk about in a wide place.” The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive gives a further consequence of the anticipated positive divine response (see vv. 43-44). Another option is to take the cohortative as expressing the psalmist’s request. In this case one could translate, “and please give me security.”
4 tn Heb “my ways.”
5 tn Heb “and I turn my feet toward.”