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142 Your justice endures,[a]
and your law is reliable.[b]
143 Distress and hardship confront[c] me,
yet I find delight in your commands.
144 Your rules remain just.[d]
Give me insight so that I can live.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:142 tn Heb “your justice [is] justice forever.”
  2. Psalm 119:142 tn Or “truth.”
  3. Psalm 119:143 tn Heb “find.”
  4. Psalm 119:144 tn Heb “just are your rules forever.”
  5. Psalm 119:144 tn The cohortative verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding imperative.

142 Your righteousness is everlasting
    and your law is true.(A)
143 Trouble and distress have come upon me,
    but your commands give me delight.(B)
144 Your statutes are always righteous;
    give me understanding(C) that I may live.

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