Mazmur 119:105

נ (Nun)

119:105 Your word ¹  is a lamp to walk by,

and a light to illumine my path. ² 

Mazmur 17:5

17:5 I carefully obey your commands; ³ 

I do not deviate from them. ⁴ 

Mazmur 37:31

37:31 The law of their God controls their thinking; ⁵ 

their ⁶  feet do not slip.

Mazmur 73:2

73:2 But as for me, my feet almost slipped;

my feet almost slid out from under me. ⁷ 

[119:105]  ¹ tn Many medieval Hebrew mss read the plural (“words”).

[119:105]  ² tn Heb “[is] a lamp for my foot and a light for my path.”

[17:5]  ³ tn Heb “my steps stay firm in your tracks.” The infinitive absolute functions here as a finite verb (see GKC 347 §113.gg). God’s “tracks” are his commands, i.e., the moral pathways he has prescribed for the psalmist.

[17:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “my footsteps do not stagger.”

[37:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “the law of his God [is] in his heart.” The “heart” is here the seat of one’s thoughts and motives.

[37:31]  ⁶ tn Heb “his.” The pronoun has been translated as plural to agree with the representative or typical “godly” in v. 30.

[73:2]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew verb normally means “to pour out,” but here it must have the nuance “to slide.”

[73:2]  sn My feet almost slid out from under me. The language is metaphorical. As the following context makes clear, the psalmist almost “slipped” in a spiritual sense. As he began to question God’s justice, the psalmist came close to abandoning his faith.