Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
Updated King James Version
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 unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
74They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in 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.
Job 10:8Yours hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet you do destroy me.
Job 32:8But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding.
Psalms 100:3Know all of you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Psalms 119:144The righteousness of your testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall 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 →