Discovery BoxPsalms 26:7 
Contextand to tell about all your amazing deeds. 2
Psalms 119:8
Context119:8 I will keep your statutes.
Do not completely abandon me! 3
Psalms 119:14
Context119:14 I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules 4
as if 5 they were riches of all kinds. 6
Psalms 119:19
Context119:19 I am like a foreigner in this land. 7
Do not hide your commands from me!
Psalms 119:22
Context119:22 Spare me 8 shame and humiliation,
for I observe your rules.
Psalms 119:39
Context119:39 Take away the insults that I dread! 9
Indeed, 10 your regulations are good.
Psalms 119:46
Context119:46 I will speak 11 about your regulations before kings
and not be ashamed.
Psalms 119:80
Context119:80 May I be fully committed to your statutes, 12
so that I might not be ashamed.
Psalms 119:162
Context119:162 I rejoice in your instructions,
like one who finds much plunder. 13
Psalms 122:2
Context122:2 Our feet are 14 standing
inside your gates, O Jerusalem.
1 tn Heb “to cause to be heard the sound of thanksgiving.”
2 tn The two infinitival forms (both with prefixed preposition -לְ, lamed) give the purpose for his appearance at the altar.
3 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.
4 tn Heb “in the way of your rules.”
5 tn Heb “as upon,” meaning “as if” (see 2 Chr 32:19).
6 tn Heb “all wealth.” The phrase refers to all kinds of wealth and riches. See Prov 1:13; 6:31; 24:4; Ezek 27:12, 18.
7 tn Heb “I am a resident alien in the land.” Resident aliens were especially vulnerable and in need of help. They needed to know the social and legal customs of the land to avoid getting into trouble. The translation (note the addition of “like”) assumes the psalmist is speaking metaphorically, not literally.
8 tn Heb “roll away from upon me.” Some derive the imperatival form גַּל (gal) from גָּלָה (galah, “uncover,” as in v. 18), but here the form is from גָּלַל (galal, “roll”; see Josh 5:9, where חֶרְפָּה [kherpah, “shame; reproach”] also appears as object of the verb). Some, following the lead of a Dead Sea scroll (11QPsa), emend the form to גֹּל (gol).
9 tn Heb “my reproach that I fear.”
10 tn Or “for.”
11 tn The series of four cohortatives with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive in vv. 46-48 list further consequences of the anticipated positive divine response to the request made in v. 43.
12 tn Heb “may my heart be complete in your statutes.”
13 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.
14 tn Or “were.”
