Psalm 119 - Part 1 Grammar

Let's look again at the verses of the perfect acrostic, Psalm 119, one part at a time and see what the grammar is.  In Psalm 119 part 1, every verse begins with aleph א. In my translation I chose 'a' for my initial letter. Not because aleph says a, though a is a guttural, but just because a is the first vocalization in the poem. This poem enjoys its written state. The initial sounds of each verse are not vocalized all alike in this first part. I changed the translation a bit after reflecting on the grammar. (Transcription is below in the vertical form for anyone not familiar with reading Hebrew letters).

All joy for those who are the complete of the way of those walking in the teaching of יְהוָה	אַשְׁרֵי תְמִימֵי דָרֶךְ הַהֹלְכִים בְּתוֹרַת יְהוָה
All joy for those observing his testimonies With their whole heart they seek him	אַשְׁרֵי נֹצְרֵי עֵדֹתָיו בְּכָל לֵב יִדְרְשׁוּהוּ
Also they do no injustice They walk in his ways	אַף לֹא פָעֲלוּ עַוְלָה בִּדְרָכָיו הָלָכוּ
And you commanded your precepts to keep in full	אַתָּה צִוִּיתָה פִקֻּדֶיךָ לִשְׁמֹר מְאֹד
Ah if only my ways were directed to keep your statutes	אַחֲלַי יִכֹּנוּ דְרָכָי לִשְׁמֹר חֻקֶּיךָ
And then I would not be ashamed in my gaze on all your commandments	אָז לֹא אֵבוֹשׁ בְּהַבִּיטִי אֶל כָּל מִצְו‍ֹתֶיךָ
And I will praise you with an upright heart when I learn from the judgments of your righteousness	אוֹדְךָ בְּיֹשֶׁר לֵבָב בְּלָמְדִי מִשְׁפְּטֵי צִדְקֶךָ
And I will keep your statutes you will not forsake me in full perpetuity	אֶת חֻקֶּיךָ אֶשְׁמֹר אַל תַּעַזְבֵנִי עַד מְאֹד

What is the scope of this prayer? It balances with the last prayer (part 22). The poem on a surface reading seems so 'pious' that the last verse can come as a humorous shock - and also as a relief.

Time and again I am straying like a sheep that has perished
seek your servant for I do not forget your commandments

But this thought is already present in verse 5. The form is not of parallel cola, at least not particularly. The poet seems free to begin with hope. I struggle to balance the repeated word in the fourth and eighth verses. The forsaking reminds me of psalm 22. The first verse reminds me of psalm 1. To keep the instruction of יְהוָה in full and not to be forsaken 'for ever' (though that phrasing loses the sound of the poem), not to be forsaken fully in perpetuity - says to me that the cost of creation, unlimited though it be, is not a cost that cannot be met. The time of the forsaken is limited.

Here are the words in order in small doses with the grammar noted.

asheri	אשׁרי	happy - in construct
tamymi	תמימי	tamim is also a word in itself though it means the same as tam and looks like a plural so the only grammatical aspect of this word is the final yod from the construct
derek	דרך	the noun that is the end point of the construct chain? - how did it become definite when there is no article? Implicitly by the parallel that follows?
haholkim	ההלכים	qal active plural participle with article interpreted as relative but perhaps this is the end of the construct chain
betorat	בתורת	in the teaching of
יהוה	יהוה	יהוה
asheri	אשׁרי	happy - in construct
notsrei	נצרי	qal active participle in construct
`edotaiv	עדתיו	plural feminine with possessive pronoun third person masculine
becol	בכל	with + adjective
lev	לב	noun
yidreshuhu	ידרשׁוהו	qal imperfect third person plural with third person pronomial suffix
'aph	אף	conjunction
lo	לא	negative particle
pa`alu	פעלו	third person plural qal perfect (of course - there's that vav again)
`avlah	עולה	word occurs both with and without the ה listed separately in BDB and Hebrew-Latin concordance, even misspelled in Hosea 10:9 ('alva!) - also appears with a taf ('avlata) Psalm 92:15 (16 Hebr)
bidrakaiv	בדרכיו	plural ways, singular pronomial suffix, prepositional affix
halaku	הלכו	they walk - third person plural qal perfect
'atta	אתה	you - pronoun
tsivitah	צויתה	second person singular masculine perfect piel (this word is always piel - and it's hollow too and a III-he - yikes! - so the green grammar letters are those letters that are not a part of the regular root) צוה It seems to me that piel is only distinguishable from qal by diacritics (except for participles where there is an extra mem prefix).
piqudeyka	פקדיך	plural with possessive second person masculine pronoun
lishmor	לשׁמר	infinitive with preposition
me'od	מאד	much - note later recurrence
)`axalai	אחלי	interjection -if only - Rashi reads it as prayers - i.e. the interjection is prayer as is the sentence - "these [my prayers] are that my ways are firm".
yikonu	יכנו	third person plural (next word is the subject) - niphal. The root כּוּן is 'hollow' so the vav disappears in this form.
draki	דרכי	could be singular with first person pronoun = my way, but verb is plural so as with the construct form, the masculine noun plural  in im (which for this noun דרך occurs by itself only 6 times in the Bible) is shortened. This word is very common - 12 columns in my concordance 705 occurrences according to BLB
lishmor	לשׁמר	infinitive with preposition
xuchaika	חקיך	plural (shortened) with pronomial suffix
'az	אז	then
lo	לא	negative particle
'ebosh	אבושׁ	first person imperfect qal
behabiti	בהביטי	preposition+hiphil infinitive+possessive first person pronoun
el	אל	preposition
kol	כל	adjective
mitsvoteika	מצותיך	plural with pronomial second person suffix
'odek	אודך	first person imperfect qal (lucky for the poet it always starts with aleph)
beyosher	בישׁר	preposition+construct
levav	לבב	noun - and the spelling is full - both hearts - negative and positive - represented!
belamdi	בלמדי	same construction as above only preposition+qal infinitive+first person pronoun
mishpatei	משׁפטי	plural in construct = judgments of
tsedeqeka	צדקך	noun singular with second person possessive pronoun
et	את	direct object marker as a lead in a poem - it's as bad as my 'Ah' or 'And'
xuqeik	חקיך	noun plural with second person possessive pronoun
eshmor	אשׁמר	poet could have begun the line with this verb too - again first person imperfect qal
al	אל	negative particle
ti`azbeni	תעזבני	imperfect second person with pronomial suffix with an extra nun - to make the suffix easier to say?
`ad	עד	until
me'od	מאד	much - note how it recurs earlier in this poem