Discovery BoxPsalms 119:34 
Context119:34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law,
and keep it with all my heart. 1
Psalms 119:66
Context119:66 Teach me proper discernment 2 and understanding!
For I consider your commands to be reliable. 3
Psalms 119:73
Contextי (Yod)
119:73 Your hands made me and formed me. 4
Give me understanding so that I might learn 5 your commands.
Psalms 119:169
Contextת (Tav)
119:169 Listen to my cry for help, 6 O Lord!
Give me insight by your word!
1 tn The two prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the introductory imperative.
2 tn Heb “goodness of taste.” Here “taste” refers to moral and ethical discernment.
3 tn Heb “for I believe in your commands.”
4 tn Heb “made me and established me.” The two verbs also appear together in Deut 32:6, where God, compared to a father, is said to have “made and established” Israel.
5 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
6 tn Heb “may my cry approach before you.”
