The plural tsedaqot ('righteous deeds/acts') emphasises that Yahweh loves not abstract righteousness but concrete, enacted justice in the world. The closing phrase yashar yechezu phaneimo ('the upright shall behold His face') is the psalm's crown: paneh (face/presence) is the most intimate term for divine encounter, used of the Bread of the Presence in the tabernacle and the Aaronic blessing. To 'see the face' of a great king was the supreme honor in the ancient Near East—and here it is the destiny of the morally yashar (straight). The arc is perfect: those who shoot from darkness (v.2) sought to extinguish the light; those who remain upright will stand in the full, unveiled light of Yahweh's face. F.O.G. preserves tsedaqot as 'righteous deeds'; F.O.G.M. expands to 'every act of justice' to capture both the warmth and legal register of what Yahweh loves.

The plural tsedaqot ('righteous deeds/acts') emphasises that Yahweh loves not abstract righteousness but concrete, enacted justice in the world. The closing phrase yashar yechezu phaneimo ('the upright shall behold His face') is the psalm's crown: paneh (face/presence) is the most intimate term for divine encounter, used of the Bread of the Presence in the tabernacle and the Aaronic blessing. To 'see the face' of a great king was the supreme honor in the ancient Near East—and here it is the destiny of the morally yashar (straight). The arc is perfect: those who shoot from darkness (v.2) sought to extinguish the light; those who remain upright will stand in the full, unveiled light of Yahweh's face. F.O.G. preserves tsedaqot as 'righteous deeds'; F.O.G.M. expands to 'every act of justice' to capture both the warmth and legal register of what Yahweh loves.