Mazmur 119:40-43

119:40 Look, I long for your precepts.

Revive me with your deliverance! ¹ 

ו (Vav)

119:41 May I experience your loyal love, ²  O Lord,

and your deliverance, ³  as you promised. ⁴ 

119:42 Then I will have a reply for the one who insults me, ⁵ 

for I trust in your word.

119:43 Do not completely deprive me of a truthful testimony, ⁶ 

for I await your justice.

[119:40]  ¹ tn Or “righteousness.”

[119:41]  ² tn Heb “and may your loyal love come to me.”

[119:41]  ³ tn Or “salvation” (so many English versions).

[119:41]  ⁴ tn Heb “according to your word.”

[119:42]  ⁵ tn Heb “and I will answer [the] one who insults me a word.” The prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the jussive (see v. 41).

[119:43]  ⁶ 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.