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Psalm 119:16–17

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119:16I find delight23 in your statutes;

I do not forget your instructions.24

ג (Gimel)

119:17Be kind to your servant!

Then I will live25 and keep26 your instructions.27

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Footnotes

  1. 23 The imperfects in this verse emphasize the attitude the psalmist maintains toward God’s law. Another option is to translate with the future tense, “I will find delight … I will not forget.”
  2. 24 Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew as well as the read the plural here.
  3. 25 The prefixed verbal form is probably a cohortative indicating purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
  4. 26 The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the imperative that begins the verse.
  5. 27 Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew as well as several ancient versions read the plural here.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I will delight in your statutes;

I will not forget your word.

Deal bountifully with your servant,

that I may live and keep your word.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I delight in your decrees;

I will not neglect your word.

Be good to your servant while I live,

that I may obey your word.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I will delight in your statutes;

I will not forget your word.

Deal generously with your servant

so that I might live;

then I will keep your word.

NLTNew Living Translation

I will delight in your decrees

and not forget your word.

Be good to your servant,

that I may live and obey your word.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I will take delight in your statutes;

I will not forget your word.

Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live

and heed your word.

KJV 1900King James Version

I will delight myself in thy statutes:

I will not forget thy word.

GIMEL.

Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live,

And keep thy word.