Mazmur 119:11

119:11 In my heart I store up ¹  your words, ² 

so I might not sin against you.

Mazmur 119:83

119:83 For ³  I am like a wineskin ⁴  dried up in smoke. ⁵ 

I do not forget your statutes.

Mazmur 119:93

119:93 I will never forget your precepts,

for by them you have revived me.

Mazmur 119:109

119:109 My life is in continual danger, ⁶ 

but I do not forget your law.

Mazmur 119:141

119:141 I am insignificant and despised,

yet I do not forget your precepts.

Mazmur 119:176

119:176 I have wandered off like a lost sheep. ⁷ 

Come looking for your servant,

for I do not forget your commands.

[119:11]  ¹ tn Or “hide.”

[119:11]  ² tn Heb “your word.” Some medieval Hebrew mss as well as the LXX read the plural, “your words.”

[119:83]  ³ tn Or “even though.”

[119:83]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew word נֹאד (no’d, “leather container”) refers to a container made from animal skin which is used to hold wine or milk (see Josh 9:4, 13; Judg 4:19; 1 Sam 16:20).

[119:83]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the smoke.”

[119:109]  ⁶ tn Heb “my life [is] in my hands continually.”

[119:176]  ⁷ tn Heb “I stray like a lost sheep.” It is possible that the point of the metaphor is vulnerability: The psalmist, who is threatened by his enemies, feels as vulnerable as a straying, lost sheep. This would not suggest, however, that he has wandered from God’s path (see the second half of the verse, as well as v. 110).