Mazmur 119:10

119:10 With all my heart I seek you.

Do not allow me to stray from your commands!

Mazmur 119:21

119:21 You reprimand arrogant people.

Those who stray from your commands are doomed. ¹ 

Mazmur 95:10

95:10 For forty years I was continually disgusted ²  with that generation,

and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; ³ 

they do not obey my commands.’ ⁴ 

[119:21]  ¹ tn Heb “accursed.” The traditional punctuation of the Hebrew text takes “accursed” with the previous line (“arrogant, accursed ones”), but it is preferable to take it with the second line as the predicate of the statement.

[95:10]  ² tn The prefixed verbal form is either a preterite or an imperfect. If the latter, it emphasizes the ongoing nature of the condition in the past. The translation reflects this interpretation of the verbal form.

[95:10]  ³ tn Heb “a people, wanderers of heart [are] they.”

[95:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they do not know my ways.” In this context the Lord’s “ways” are his commands, viewed as a pathway from which his people, likened to wayward sheep (see v. 7), wander.