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Psalms 34:5

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34:5 Those who look to him for help are happy;

their faces are not ashamed. 1 

Psalms 119:31

Context

119:31 I hold fast 2  to your rules.

O Lord, do not let me be ashamed!

Psalms 119:46

Context

119:46 I will speak 3  about your regulations before kings

and not be ashamed.

Psalms 119:80

Context

119:80 May I be fully committed to your statutes, 4 

so that I might not be ashamed.

1 tc Heb “they look to him and are radiant and their faces are not ashamed.” The third person plural subject (“they”) is unidentified; there is no antecedent in the Hebrew text. For this reason some prefer to take the perfect verbal forms in the first line as imperatives, “look to him and be radiant” (cf. NEB, NRSV). Some medieval Hebrew mss and other ancient witnesses (Aquila, the Syriac, and Jerome) support an imperatival reading for the first verb. In the second line some (with support from the LXX and Syriac) change “their faces” to “your faces,” which allows one to retain more easily the jussive force of the verb (suggested by the preceding אַל [’al]): “do not let your faces be ashamed.” It is probable that the verbal construction in the second line is rhetorical, expressing the conviction that the action in view cannot or should not happen. See GKC 322 §109.e.

2 tn Or “cling to.”

3 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.

4 tn Heb “may my heart be complete in your statutes.”



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