Mazmur 119:20

119:20 I desperately long to know ¹ 

your regulations at all times.

Mazmur 119:43

119:43 Do not completely deprive me of a truthful testimony, ² 

for I await your justice.

Mazmur 119:75

119:75 I know, Lord, that your regulations ³  are just.

You disciplined me because of your faithful devotion to me. ⁴ 

Mazmur 119:123

119:123 My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, ⁵ 

for your reliable promise to be fulfilled. ⁶ 

Mazmur 119:131

119:131 I open my mouth and pant,

because I long ⁷  for your commands.

[119:20]  ¹ tn Heb “my soul languishes for longing for.”

[119:43]  ² tn Heb “do not snatch from my mouth a word of truth to excess.” The psalmist wants to be able to give a reliable testimony about the Lord’s loyal love (vv. 41-42), but if God does not intervene, the psalmist will be deprived of doing so, for the evidence of such love (i.e., deliverance) will be lacking.

[119:75]  ³ tn In this context (note the second line) the Hebrew term מִשְׁפָּטִים (mishpatim), which so often refers to the regulations of God’s law elsewhere in this psalm, may refer instead to his decisions or disciplinary judgment.

[119:75]  ⁴ tn Heb “and [in] faithfulness you afflicted me.”

[119:123]  ⁵ tn Heb “my eyes fail for your deliverance.” The psalmist has intently kept his eyes open, looking for God to intervene, but now his eyes are watery and bloodshot, impairing his vision. See the similar phrase in v. 82.

[119:123]  ⁶ tn Heb “and for the word of your faithfulness.”

[119:131]  ⁷ tn The verb occurs only here in the OT.