Psalms 119:73
You created me and made me what I am; help me to learn and better understand your commandments.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
In Context
72What you tell me to do is worth more to me than much gold and silver.
74May those who worship you be happy when they see me, for I place my confidence in your word.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he puts you in command of Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.
Job 10:8You made me and shaped me with your own hands, and yet you destroy me.
Job 32:8However, there is a spirit in human beings, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.
Psalms 100:3Know that the Lord is God! He made us, so we belong to him. We are his people, the flock he cares for.
Psalms 119:34Help me to understand so I can be totally committed to doing what you want.
Psalms 119:144Your laws are always right; help me to understand what they mean so I can 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 →