Discovery BoxPsalms 119:16 
Context119:16 I find delight 1 in your statutes;
I do not forget your instructions. 2
Psalms 119:77
Context119:77 May I experience your compassion, 3 so I might live!
For I find delight in your law.
Psalms 119:92
Context119:92 If I had not found encouragement in your law, 4
I would have died in my sorrow. 5
Psalms 119:143
Context119:143 Distress and hardship confront 6 me,
yet I find delight in your commands.
Psalms 119:162
Context119:162 I rejoice in your instructions,
like one who finds much plunder. 7
1 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.”
2 tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
3 tn Heb “and may your compassion come to me.”
4 tn Heb “if your law had not been my delight.”
5 tn Or “my suffering.”
6 tn Heb “find.”
7 tn Heb “like one who finds great plunder.” See Judg 5:30. The image is that of a victorious warrior who finds a large amount of plunder on the field of battle.
