Discovery BoxPsalms 119:15-16 
Context119:15 I will meditate on 1 your precepts
and focus 2 on your behavior. 3
119:16 I find delight 4 in your statutes;
I do not forget your instructions. 5
Psalms 119:111
Context119:111 I claim your rules as my permanent possession,
for they give me joy. 6
Psalms 119:127-128
Context119:127 For this reason 7 I love your commands
more than gold, even purest gold.
119:128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. 8
I hate all deceitful actions. 9
Psalms 119:167
Context119:167 I keep your rules;
I love them greatly.
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 The imperfects in this verse emphasize the attitude the psalmist maintains toward God’s law. Another option is to translate with the future tense, “I will find delight…I will not forget.”
5 tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
6 tn Heb “for the joy of my heart [are] they.”
7 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.
8 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.
9 tn Heb “every false path.”
