Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made me and fashioned me; make me wise to learn your commandments.
Open English Bible (US)
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 pieces of silver and gold.
74Those who revere you shall see me with joy, for in your word have I hoped.
Cross References
Psalms 100:3Be sure that the Lord alone is God. It is he who has made us, and his we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 119:34instruct me to keep your law, and I will observe it with all my heart.
Psalms 119:144Right are your charges forever, instruct me 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 →