Psalms 119:171
My lips utter praise, || For You teach me Your statutes.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
In Context
170My supplication comes in before You, || Deliver me according to Your saying.
172My tongue sings of Your saying, || For all Your commands [are] righteous.
Cross References
Psalms 50:23He who is sacrificing praise honors Me, || As for him who makes a way, || I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
Psalms 71:17God, You have taught me from my youth, || And until now I declare Your wonders.
Psalms 94:12O the blessedness of the man || Whom You instruct, O YAH, || And teach him out of Your law,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:170-171
22. TAU. 169 Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord : give me understanding according to thy word. 170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word. Here we have, I. A general petition for audience repeated: Let my cry come near before thee; and again, Let my supplication come before thee. He calls his prayer his cry, which denotes the fervency and vehemence of it, and his supplication, which denotes the humility of it. We must come to God as beggars come to our doors for an alms. He is… Read the whole commentary →