Psalms 119:8
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
American King James Version (AKJV)
I will keep your statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
American Standard Version (ASV)
I will observe thy statutes: Oh forsake me not utterly.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I will keep your rules: O give me not up completely.
Webster's Revision
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
World English Bible
I will observe your statutes. Don't utterly forsake me. BET
English Revised Version (ERV)
I will observe thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Clarke's Psalms 119:8 Bible Commentary
O forsake me not utterly - עד מאד ad meod, "to utter dereliction;" never leave me to my own strength, nor to my own heart!
Barnes's Psalms 119:8 Bible Commentary
I will keep thy statutes - Thy commands; thy laws. This expresses the firm purpose of the psalmist, He meant to keep the law of God; he could confidently say that he would do it - yet coupled with the prayer which follows, that God would not forsake him.
O forsake me not utterly - Hebrew, "To very much;" so as to leave me to myself. His confidence that he would keep the commandments of God was based on the prayer that God would not leave him. There is no other ground of persuasion that we shall be able to keep the commandments of God than that which rests on the belief and the hope that He will not leave us.
Wesley's Psalms 119:8 Bible Commentary
119:8 Forsake me not - For then I shall fall into the foulest sins.
