New English Translation
Psalms 119:135
135Smile on your servant! Teach me your statutes!
Psalms 119:135 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
- New International Version (NIV)Make your face shine on your servant and teach me your decrees.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your statutes.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Make Your face shine upon Your servant, And teach me Your statutes.
Context of Psalms 119:135
133Direct my steps by your word! Do not let any sin dominate me! 134Deliver me from oppressive men, so that I can keep your precepts. Smile on your servant! Teach me your statutes! 136Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law. צ (Tsade) 137You are just, O Lord, and your judgments are fair.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:135 word by word
פָּ֭נֶיךָ הָאֵ֣ר בְּעַבְדֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝לַמְּדֵ֗נִי אֶת־חֻקֶּֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:135
- Psalms 4:6Many say, “Who can show us anything good?” Smile upon us, Lord!
- Psalms 80:1O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the winged angels, reveal your splendor!
- Numbers 6:25The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
- Job 33:26He entreats God, and God delights in him, he sees God’s face with rejoicing, and God restores to him his righteousness.
- Revelation 22:4and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
- Psalms 119:12You deserve praise, O Lord! Teach me your statutes!
- Job 34:32Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
- Job 35:11who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
- Job 36:22Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?
- Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds so they could understand the scriptures,
Commentaries on Psalms 119:135
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 135Make thy face to shine upon thy servant - Hebrew, “Let thy face give light to thy servant.” See the notes at Psalm 4:6. And teach me thy statutes - See the notes at Psalm 119:12.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 129-136Verses 129-136 The wonders of redeeming love will fix the heart in adoration of them. The Scriptures show us what we were, what we are, and what we shall be. They show us the mercy and the justice of the Lord, the joys of heaven, and the pains of hell. Thus they give to the simple, in a few days, understanding of those matters, which philosophers for ages sought in vain. The believer, wearied with the cares of life and his conflicts with sin, pants for…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 129-136Pe (פ) is the seventeenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. The psalmist prays earnestly for God to speak to him as he suffers from his adversities.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 131-135131-135. An ardent desire (compare Psa 56:1, 2) for spiritual enlightening, establishment in a right course, deliverance from the wicked, and evidence of God's favor is expressed I opened my mouth, and panted--as a traveller in a hot desert pants for the cooling breeze (Psa 63:1; 84:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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