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144 Your rules remain just.[a]
Give me insight so that I can live.[b]

ק (Qof)

145 I cried out with all my heart, “Answer me, O Lord!
I will observe your statutes.”
146 I cried out to you, “Deliver me,
so that I can keep[c] your rules.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:144 tn Heb “just are your rules forever.”
  2. Psalm 119:144 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.
  3. Psalm 119:146 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

144 Your statutes are always righteous;
    give me understanding(A) that I may live.

ק Qoph

145 I call with all my heart;(B) answer me, Lord,
    and I will obey your decrees.(C)
146 I call out to you; save me(D)
    and I will keep your statutes.

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