119:15 I will meditate on 1 your precepts
and focus 2 on your behavior. 3
119:23 Though rulers plot and slander me, 4
your servant meditates on your statutes.
1 tn The cohortative verbal forms in this verse express the psalmist’s resolve.
2 tn Heb “gaze [at].”
3 tn Heb “ways” (referring figuratively to God’s behavior here).
4 tn Heb “though rulers sit, about me they talk together.” (For another example of the Niphal of דָּבַר (davar) used with a suffixed form of the preposition ב, see Ezek 33:30.)