Command or Request?

Make me know Your ways, O Lord;
Teach me Your paths.  Psalm 25:4  NASB Make me – Robert Alter’s translation of this verse carries a decidedly different tone.  Alter translates the verbs as petitions; the NASB translates them as imperatives.  Our previous citation from TWOT establishes the biblical emphasis on choice.[1]You are responsible.  Not even God…