Psalms 119:27
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts, so I shall meditate on thy wondrous works.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
In Context
26I declared my ways, and thou answered me. Teach me thy statutes.
28My soul melts for heaviness. Strengthen thou me according to thy word.
Cross References
Exodus 13:14And it shall be, when thy son asks thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shall say to him, By strength of hand LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
Psalms 71:17O God, thou have taught me from my youth, and I have declared thy wondrous works until now.
Psalms 78:4We will not hide them from their sons, telling to the generation to come the praises of LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
Psalms 111:4He has made his wonderful works to be remembered. LORD is gracious and merciful.
Acts 2:11Cretes and Arabians. We hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:27-28
26 I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes. 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. We have here, 1. The great intimacy and freedom that had been between David and his God. David had opened his case, opened his very heart to God: " I have declared my ways, and acknowledged thee in them all, have taken thee along with me in all my designs and enterprises." Thus Jephthah uttered all his words, and Hezekiah spread his letters, before the… Read the whole commentary →