Psalms 119:129

◄Your requirements are/All the things that you have instructed us to do are► wonderful, so I obey them with all my inner being.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

In Context

128So I conduct my life by ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►, and I hate all the evil things that some people do.

130When someone explains ◄your words/what you have said►, it is as though they are lighting a light; what they say causes even people who have not learned your laws to be wise.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:2Yahweh is pleased with those who ◄obey his requirements/do what he has instructed them to do►, those who request him with their entire inner beings to help them to do that.

Psalms 119:31Yahweh, I try to carefully hold fast to what you have instructed us to do; do not abandon me, with the result that I would become disgraced.

Psalms 139:6I am not able to understand that you know everything about me. That is too great for me to really understand.

Isaiah 25:1Yahweh, you are my God; I will honor you and praise you [MTY]. You do wonderful things; you said long ago that you would do those things, and now you have done them like you said that you would.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:128-129

127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. David here, as often in this psalm, professes the great love he had to the word and law of God; and, to evidence the sincerity of it, observe, 1. The degree of his love. He loved his Bible better than he loved his money— above gold, yea, above fine gold. Gold, fine gold, is what most men set their hearts upon; nothing charms them and dazzles… Read the whole commentary →

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