Psalms 119:73
YOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
In Context
72The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
74They that fear thee will see me, and rejoice; because I have hoped in thy word.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12Only, Jehovah give thee wisdom and understanding, and place thee over Israel, and to keep the law of Jehovah thy God.
Job 10:8Thy hands have bound me together and made me as one, round about; yet dost thou swallow me up!
Job 32:8But there is a spirit which is in man; and the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Psalms 100:3Know that Jehovah is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I will observe thy law; and I will keep it with [my] whole heart.
Psalms 119:144The righteousness of thy testimonies is for ever: give me understanding, and I shall live.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:73
72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. This is a reason why David reckoned that when by his afflictions he learned God's statutes, and the profit did so much counterbalance the loss, he was really a gainer by them; for God's law, which he got acquaintance with by his affliction, was better to him than all the gold and silver which he lost by his affliction. 1. David had but a little of the word of God in comparison with what we have, yet see how highly he valued it; how… Read the whole commentary →