Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made and fashioned me; 1 give me understanding so that I may learn your commandments. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
74Those who honor you will be glad when they see me 1 because I find hope in your word. 1
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12Only may Yahweh give you insight and understanding, so that you may obey the law of Yahweh your God, when he places you in charge over Israel.
Job 10:8Your hands have framed and fashioned me 1 together round about, yet you are destroying me. 1
Job 32:8But there is a spirit in a man; 1 the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding. 1
Psalms 100:3Know that Yahweh is God; 1 he made us, and we are his. 1 We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. 1
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law; 1 I will observe it with all my heart. 1
Psalms 119:144Your covenant decrees are righteous forever; 1 give me understanding that I may live. QOPH 1
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 →