Psalms 119:45

I will be secure, ¹  for I seek your precepts.

Ps 119:19,71,94,148,162; Ps 119:32; Ps 119:133; Pr 2:4,5; Pr 18:1; Ec 1:13; Lu 4:18; Joh 5:39; Joh 8:30-36; Eph 5:17; Jas 1:25; Jas 2:12; 2Pe 2:19

¹ tn Heb “and I will walk about in a wide place.” The cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive gives a further consequence of the anticipated positive divine response (see vv. 43-44). Another option is to take the cohortative as expressing the psalmist’s request. In this case one could translate, “and please give me security.”