Psalms 119:73
[YOD] Your hands made me and establish me, || Cause me to understand, and I learn Your commands.
Literal Standard 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
72The Law of Your mouth [is] better to me || Than thousands of gold and silver!
74Those fearing You see me and rejoice, || Because I have hoped for Your word.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12Only, may YHWH give wisdom and understanding to you, and charge you concerning Israel, even to keep the Law of your God YHWH;
Job 10:8Your hands have taken pains about me, || And they make me together all around, || And You swallow me up!
Job 32:8Surely a spirit is in man, || And the breath of the Mighty One || Causes them to understand.
Psalms 100:3Know that YHWH [is] God, || He made us, and we are His, || His people—and the flock of His pasture.
Psalms 119:34Cause me to understand, and I keep Your law, || And observe it with the whole heart.
Psalms 119:144The righteousness of Your testimonies || [Is] to cause me to understand, and I 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 →