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The eightfold Resh. Because God cannot suffer those who are faithful to His word to succumb, he supplicates His help against his persecutors. רִיבָה is Milra before the initial (half-guttural) Resh, as in Psa 43:1; Psa 74:22. The Lamed of לְאִמְרָֽתְךָ is the Lamed of reference (with respect to Thine utterance), whether the reference be normative (= כאמרתך, Psa 119:58), as in Isa 11:3, or causal, Isa 25:2, Isa 55:5; Job 42:5. The predicate רָחֹוק, like יָשָׂר in Psa 119:137, stands first in the primary, as yet indefinite form. Concerning Psa 119:156 vid., on Psa 119:149. At the sight of the faithless he felt a profound disgust; וָאֶתְקֹוטָטָה, pausal aorist, supply בָּהֶם, Psa 139:21. It is all the same in the end whether we render אֲשֶׁר quippe qui or siquidem. רֹאשׁ in Psa 119:160 signifies the head-number of sum. If he reckons up the word of God in its separate parts and as a whole, truth is the denominator of the whole, truth is the sum-total. This supplicatory חַיֵּנִי is repeated three times in this group. The nearer it draws towards its end the more importunate does the Psalm become.