Psalms 34:5
Context34:5 Those who look to him for help are happy;
their faces are not ashamed. 1
Psalms 119:31
Context119:31 I hold fast 2 to your rules.
O Lord, do not let me be ashamed!
Psalms 119:46
Context119:46 I will speak 3 about your regulations before kings
and not be ashamed.
Psalms 119:80
Context119:80 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
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.”