Psalms 119:73
YOD. Thy hands have made me and established me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
In Context
72Better is unto me the law of thy mouth than thousands of gold and silver.
74Those that fear thee will see me and be rejoiced; because I have waited for thy word.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12Only may the Lord give thee intelligence and understanding, and give thee charge over Israel, so that thou mayest observe the law of the Lord thy God.
Job 10:8Thy hands have carefully fashioned me and made me; every thing is in harmony all round about; and yet thou dost destroy me!
Job 32:8But it is the spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty which giveth them understanding.
Psalms 100:3Know, that the Lord is God indeed: it is he that hath made us, and his are we—his people and the flock of his pasture.
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law, and I will observe it with all [my] heart.
Psalms 119:144Righteous are thy testimonies for everlasting: give me understanding, that I may 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 →