18:22 For I am aware of all his regulations, 1
and I do not reject his rules. 2
119:7 I will give you sincere thanks, 3
when I learn your just regulations.
119:13 With my lips I proclaim
all the regulations you have revealed. 4
119:30 I choose the path of faithfulness;
I am committed to 5 your regulations.
119:39 Take away the insults that I dread! 6
Indeed, 7 your regulations are good.
119:46 I will speak 8 about your regulations before kings
and not be ashamed.
119:62 In the middle of the night I arise 9 to thank you
for your just regulations.
119:102 I do not turn aside from your regulations,
for you teach me.
119:106 I have vowed and solemnly sworn
to keep your just regulations.
119:108 O Lord, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! 10
Teach me your regulations!
119:164 Seven 11 times a day I praise you
because of your just regulations.
119:175 May I 12 live and praise you!
May your regulations help me! 13
147:19 He proclaims his word to Jacob,
his statutes and regulations to Israel.
1 tn Heb “for all his regulations [are] before me.” The Hebrew term מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim, “regulations”) refers to God’s covenantal requirements, especially those which the king is responsible to follow (cf. Deut 17:18-20). See also Pss 19:9 (cf. vv. 7-8); 89:30; 147:20 (cf. v. 19), as well as the numerous uses of the term in Ps 119.
2 tn Heb “and his rules I do not turn aside from me.” 2 Sam 22:23 reads, “and his rules, I do not turn aside from it.” The prefixed verbal form is probably an imperfect; the psalmist here generalizes about his loyalty to God’s commands. The Lord’s “rules” are the stipulations of the covenant which the king was responsible to obey (see Ps 89:31; cf. v. 30 and Deut 17:18-20).
3 tn Heb “I will give you thanks with an upright heart.”
4 tn Heb “of your mouth.”
5 tn BDB 1000-1001 s.v. I שָׁוָה derives the verb from the first homonym listed, meaning “to agree with; to be like; to resemble.” It here means (in the Piel stem) “to be accounted suitable,” which in turn would mean by metonymy “to accept; to be committed to.” Some prefer to derive the verb from a homonym meaning “to place; to set,” but in this case an elliptical prepositional phrase must be understood, “I place your regulations [before me]” (see Ps 16:8).
6 tn Heb “my reproach that I fear.”
7 tn Or “for.”
8 tn The series of four cohortatives with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive in vv. 46-48 list further consequences of the anticipated positive divine response to the request made in v. 43.
9 tn The psalmist uses an imperfect verbal form to emphasize that this is his continuing practice.
10 tn Heb “of my mouth.”
11 tn The number “seven” is use rhetorically to suggest thoroughness.
12 tn Heb “my life.”
13 tn God’s regulations will “help” the psalmist by giving him moral and ethical guidance.