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Psalm 119:17

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ג (Gimel)

119:17Be kind to your servant!

Then I will live25 and keep26 your instructions.27

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Footnotes

  1. 25 The prefixed verbal form is probably a cohortative indicating purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
  2. 26 The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the imperative that begins the verse.
  3. 27 Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew as well as several ancient versions read the plural here.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Deal bountifully with your servant,

that I may live and keep your word.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Be good to your servant while I live,

that I may obey your word.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Deal generously with your servant

so that I might live;

then I will keep your word.

NLTNew Living Translation

Be good to your servant,

that I may live and obey your word.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live

and heed your word.

KJV 1900King James Version

GIMEL.

Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live,

And keep thy word.