Psalms 119:169
Yahweh, listen while I pray for you to help me; help me to understand ◄your words/what you have told us to do►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
In Context
170Hear me while I pray and rescue/save me as you promised/said that you would.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12I also hope/wish that he will enable you to be wise and to understand what you need to know, and enable you to obey his laws while you rule over Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:27The priests and the other descendants of Levi stood up to bless the people, and God heard them in heaven, the holy place where he lives.
Psalms 119:34Help me to understand your laws in order that I may obey them with all my inner being.
Proverbs 2:3Call out to God to get insight; plead with him to help you to understand more of what he wants you to know.
James 1:5If anyone of you does not know how to act wisely in order to endure difficulties/trials well, he should ask God to show him what he should do, because God wholeheartedly/gladly helps all people who ask and does not scold anyone for asking. Those who ask, God will give them wisdom to know what they should do.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:168-169
167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. 168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. David's conscience here witnesses for him, I. That his practices were good. 1. He loved God's testimonies, he loved them exceedingly. Our love to the word of God must be a superlative love (we must love it better than the wealth and pleasure of this world), and it must be a victorious love, such as will subdue and mortify our lusts and extirpate carnal affections.… Read the whole commentary →