¹ tn Heb “my ways I proclaimed.”

² tn Heb “the way of your precepts make me understand.”

³ tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

⁴ tn Heb “your amazing things,” which refers here to the teachings of the law (see v. 18).

⁵ tn Heb “the way of your statutes.”

⁶ tn Heb “and I will keep it to the end.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative. The Hebrew term עֵקֶב (’eqev) is understood to mean “end” here. Another option is to take עֵקֶב (’eqev) as meaning “reward” here (see Ps 19:11) and to translate, “so that I might observe it and be rewarded.”

⁷ tn Heb “goodness of taste.” Here “taste” refers to moral and ethical discernment.

⁸ tn Heb “for I believe in your commands.”

⁹ tn Heb “better to me [is] the law of your mouth than thousands of gold and silver.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “of my mouth.”

¹¹ tn Heb “do with your servant according to your loyal love.”