1:5 Then I said, “Please, O LORD God of heaven, great and awesome God, who keeps his loving covenant11 with those who love him and obey12 his commandments,
tnHeb “the covenant and loyal love.” The phrase is a hendiadys: the first noun retains its full nominal sense, while the second noun functions adjectivally (“loyal love” = loving). Alternately, the first might function adjectivally and the second noun function as the noun: “covenant and loyal love” = covenant fidelity (see Neh 9:32).