119:4 You demand that your precepts
be carefully kept. 1
119:56 This 2 has been my practice,
for I observe your precepts.
119:100 I am more discerning than those older than I,
for I observe your precepts.
119:134 Deliver me 3 from oppressive men,
so that I can keep 4 your precepts.
119:168 I keep your precepts and rules,
for you are aware of everything I do. 5
1 tn Heb “you, you commanded your precepts, to keep, very much.”
2 tn Heb “this has been to me.” The demonstrative “this” (1) refers back to the practices mentioned in vv. 54-55, or (2) looks forward to the statement in the second line, in which case the כִּי (ki) at the beginning of the second line should be translated “that.”
3 tn Or “redeem me.”
4 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
5 tn Heb “for all my ways [are] before you.”