Psalms 119:73
Thy hands have made and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments!
Noyes Bible
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 to me Than thousands of gold and silver.
74They who fear thee shall see me and rejoice, Because I trust in thy word.
Cross References
Job 10:8Have thy hands completely fashioned and made me In every part, that thou mightst destroy me?
Job 32:8But it is the spirit in man, Even the inspiration of the Almighty, that giveth him understanding.
Psalms 100:3Know ye that Jehovah is God! It is he that made us, and we are his, His people, and the flock of his pasture.
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, that I may keep thy law; That I may observe it with my whole heart!
Psalms 119:144The justice of thine ordinances is everlasting; 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 →