Psalms 119:8
Context119:8 I will keep your statutes.
Do not completely abandon me! 1
Psalms 119:17
Contextג (Gimel)
119:17 Be kind to your servant!
Then I will live 2 and keep 3 your instructions. 4
Psalms 119:34
Context119:34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law,
and keep it with all my heart. 5
1 tn Heb “do not abandon me to excess.” For other uses of the phrase עַד מְאֹד (’ad mÿ’od, “to excess”), see Ps 38:6, 8.
2 tn The prefixed verbal form is probably a cohortative indicating purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
3 tn The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the imperative that begins the verse.
4 tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
5 tn The two prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) conjunctive indicate purpose/result after the introductory imperative.