Discovery BoxPsalms 109:3 
Context109:3 They surround me and say hateful things; 1
they attack me for no reason.
Psalms 119:86
Context119:86 All your commands are reliable.
I am pursued without reason. 2 Help me!
Psalms 119:127-128
Context119:127 For this reason 3 I love your commands
more than gold, even purest gold.
119:128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. 4
I hate all deceitful actions. 5
1 tn Heb “and [with] words of hatred they surround me.”
2 sn God’s commands are a reliable guide to right and wrong. By keeping them the psalmist is doing what is right, yet he is still persecuted.
3 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.
4 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.
5 tn Heb “every false path.”
