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Psalm 119:17–24

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ג (Gimel)

119:17Be kind to your servant!

Then I will live25 and keep26 your instructions.27

119:18Open28 my eyes so I can truly see29

the marvelous things in your law!

119:19I am like a foreigner in this land.30

Do not hide your commands from me!

119:20I desperately long to know31

your regulations at all times.

119:21You reprimand arrogant people.

Those who stray from your commands are doomed.32

119:22Spare me33 shame and humiliation,

for I observe your rules.

119:23Though rulers plot and slander me,34

your servant meditates on your statutes.

119:24Yes, I find delight in your rules;

they give me guidance.35

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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.
  4. 28 Heb “uncover.” The verb form גַּל (gal) is an apocopated Piel imperative from גָּלָה (galah, see §75.cc).
  5. 29 The cohortative with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
  6. 30 Heb “I am a resident alien in the land.” Resident aliens were especially vulnerable and in need of help. They needed to know the social and legal customs of the land to avoid getting into trouble. The translation (note the addition of “like”) assumes the psalmist is speaking metaphorically, not literally.
  7. 31 Heb “my soul languishes for longing for.”
  8. 32 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.
  9. 33 Heb “roll away from upon me.” Some derive the imperatival form גַּל (gal) from גָּלָה (galah, “uncover,” as in v. 18), but here the form is from גָּלַל (galal, “roll”; see Josh 5:9, where חֶרְפָּה [kherpah, “shame; reproach”] also appears as object of the verb). Some, following the lead of a Dead Sea scroll (11QPsa), emend the form to גֹּל (gol).
  10. 34 Heb “though rulers sit, about me they talk together.” (For another example of the Niphal of דָּבַר (davar) used with a suffixed form of the preposition ב, see Ezek 33:30.)
  11. 35 Heb “men of my counsel.” That is, God’s rules are like advisers to the psalmist, for they teach him how to live in a godly manner that refutes the accusations of his enemies.

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Deal bountifully with your servant,

that I may live and keep your word.

Open my eyes, that I may behold

wondrous things out of your law.

I am a sojourner on the earth;

hide not your commandments from me!

My soul is consumed with longing

for your rules at all times.

You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,

who wander from your commandments.

Take away from me scorn and contempt,

for I have kept your testimonies.

Even though princes sit plotting against me,

your servant will meditate on your statutes.

Your testimonies are my delight;

they are my counselors.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Be good to your servant while I live,

that I may obey your word.

Open my eyes that I may see

wonderful things in your law.

I am a stranger on earth;

do not hide your commands from me.

My soul is consumed with longing

for your laws at all times.

You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed,

those who stray from your commands.

Remove from me their scorn and contempt,

for I keep your statutes.

Though rulers sit together and slander me,

your servant will meditate on your decrees.

Your statutes are my delight;

they are my counselors.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Deal generously with your servant

so that I might live;

then I will keep your word.

Open my eyes so that I may contemplate

wondrous things from your instruction.

I am a resident alien on earth;

do not hide your commands from me.

I am continually overcome

with longing for your judgments.

You rebuke the arrogant,

the ones under a curse,

who wander from your commands.

Take insult and contempt away from me,

for I have kept your decrees.

Though princes sit together speaking against me,

your servant will think about your statutes;

your decrees are my delight

and my counselors.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Be good to your servant,

that I may live and obey your word.

Open my eyes to see

the wonderful truths in your instructions.

I am only a foreigner in the land.

Don’t hide your commands from me!

I am always overwhelmed

with a desire for your regulations.

You rebuke the arrogant;

those who wander from your commands are cursed.

Don’t let them scorn and insult me,

for I have obeyed your laws.

Even princes sit and speak against me,

but I will meditate on your decrees.

Your laws please me;

they give me wise advice.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live

and heed your word.

Uncover my eyes, that I may look at

wonderful things from your law.

I am a sojourner on the earth;

do not hide your commands from me.

My soul is crushed with longing

for your ordinances at all times.

You rebuke the arrogant, the accursed,

who stray from your commands.

Remove from me scorn and contempt,

for I have kept your testimonies.

Even though princes sit and speak against me,

your servant meditates on your statutes.

Your testimonies are my delight,

my counselors.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

GIMEL.

Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live,

And keep thy word.

Open thou mine eyes,

That I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

I am a stranger in the earth:

Hide not thy commandments from me.

My soul breaketh for the longing

That it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed,

Which do err from thy commandments.

Remove from me reproach and contempt;

For I have kept thy testimonies.

Princes also did sit and speak against me:

But thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

Thy testimonies also are my delight

And my counsellers.

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