Psalm 119:137
135 Smile on your servant. Teach me your statutes! 136 Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law. 137 צ (Tsade) You are just, O Lord, and your judgments are fair. 138 The rules you impose are just and absolutely reliable. 139 My zeal consumes me, for my enemies forget your instructions.
Tobit 3:2
1 Then with much grief and anguish of heart I wept, and with groaning began to pray: 2 "You are righteous, O Lord, and all your deeds are just; all your ways are mercy and truth; you judge the world. 3 And now, O Lord, remember me and look favorably upon me. Do not punish me for my sins and for my unwitting offenses and those that my ancestors committed before you. They sinned against you, 4 and disobeyed your commandments. So you gave us over to plunder, exile, and death, to become the talk, the byword, and an object of reproach among all the nations among whom you have dispersed us.
Notes and References
"... The medieval Hebrew versions known as Münster (HM), Fagius (HF), and London (HL) expand on the connections between Tobit 3:2 and Psalm 119:137. All three texts add the words “and your judgments are right” after the opening words of Tobit 3:2. In doing so these late traditions recognize an allusion to Psalm 119:137 in their varied Vorlagen and add to the allusion by quoting the next few words of the Psalm ..."
Ryan, Stephan "The Psalms and the Book of Tobit" in Corley, Jeremy and Vincent Skemp (eds.) Intertextual Studies in Ben Sira and Tobit: Essays in Honor of Alexander A. Di Lella (pp. 28-42) Catholic Biblical Association of America, 2005