Psalms 119:169
Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
In Context
168I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.
170Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12Only the LORD give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge concerning Israel, that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.
2 Chronicles 30:27Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Proverbs 2:3Yea, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
James 1:5If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and reproaches not; and it shall be given him.
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 →