מ (Mem)
119:97 O how I love your law!
All day long I meditate on it.
119:127 For this reason 1 I love your commands
more than gold, even purest gold.
119:128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. 2
I hate all deceitful actions. 3
119:174 I long for your deliverance, O Lord;
I find delight in your law.
1 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.
2 tn Heb “for this reason all the precepts of everything I regard as right.” The phrase “precepts of everything” is odd. It is preferable to take the kaf (כ) on כֹּל (kol, “everything) with the preceding form as a pronominal suffix, “your precepts,” and the lamed (ל) with the following verb as an emphatic particle. See L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 138.
3 tn Heb “every false path.”