Psalms 37:4
Context37:4 Then you will take delight in the Lord, 1
and he will answer your prayers. 2
Psalms 119:16
Context119:16 I find delight 3 in your statutes;
I do not forget your instructions. 4
Psalms 119:24
Context119:24 Yes, I find delight in your rules;
they give me guidance. 5
Psalms 119:35
Context119:35 Guide me 6 in the path of your commands,
for I delight to walk in it. 7
Psalms 119:70
Context119:70 Their hearts are calloused, 8
but I find delight in your law.
Psalms 119:77
Context119:77 May I experience your compassion, 9 so I might live!
For I find delight in your law.
Psalms 119:143
Context119:143 Distress and hardship confront 10 me,
yet I find delight in your commands.
Psalms 119:174
Context119:174 I long for your deliverance, O Lord;
I find delight in your law.
Psalms 149:2
Context149:2 Let Israel rejoice in their Creator!
Let the people 11 of Zion delight in their king! 12
Psalms 149:4
Context149:4 For the Lord takes delight in his people;
he exalts the oppressed by delivering them. 13
1 tn Following the imperatives of v. 3 the prefixed verbal forms with vav (ו) in v. 4 indicate result. Faith and obedience (v. 3) will bring divine blessing (v. 4).
2 tn Or “and he will give you what you desire most.” Heb “and he will grant to you the requests of your heart.”
3 tn The imperfects in this verse emphasize the attitude the psalmist maintains toward God’s law. Another option is to translate with the future tense, “I will find delight…I will not forget.”
4 tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
5 tn Heb “men of my counsel.” That is, God’s rules are like advisers to the psalmist, for they teach him how to live in a godly manner that refutes the accusations of his enemies.
6 tn Or “make me walk.”
7 tn Heb “for in it I delight.”
8 tn Heb “their heart is insensitive like fat.”
9 tn Heb “and may your compassion come to me.”
10 tn Heb “find.”
11 tn Heb “sons.”
12 sn The
13 tn Heb “he honors the oppressed [with] deliverance.”