New English Translation
Psalms 119:144
144Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can live. ק (Qof)
Psalms 119:144 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
- New International Version (NIV)Your statutes are always righteous; give me understanding that I may live.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live.
Context of Psalms 119:144
142Your justice endures, and your law is reliable. 143Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands. Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can live. ק (Qof) 145I cried out with all my heart, “Answer me, O Lord! I will observe your statutes.” 146I cried out to you, “Deliver me, so that I can keep your rules.”
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:144 word by word
צֶ֖דֶק עֵדְוֹתֶ֥יךָ לְעוֹלָ֗ם הֲבִינֵ֥נִי וְאֶחְיֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:144
- Psalms 119:138The rules you impose are just, and absolutely reliable.
- Matthew 5:18I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.
- 1 Peter 1:23You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.
- Psalms 119:34Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.
- 2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who said “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.
- 1 John 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
- Proverbs 10:21The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.
- Isaiah 6:9He said, “Go and tell these people: ‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’
- Isaiah 27:11When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
- Jeremiah 4:22The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
- Daniel 12:10Many will be purified, made clean, and refined, but the wicked will go on being wicked. None of the wicked will understand, though the wise will understand.
- Hosea 4:6You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.
- Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.
- John 17:3Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:144
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 144The righteousness of thy testimonies - The principles of righteousness on which they are founded. Those testimonies - those laws - are not arbitrary, or the mere expressions of will. They are founded on right and justice as seen by God, and his laws are his testimony as to what truth and justice are. Is everlasting - See the notes at Psalm 119:142. Give me understanding, and I shall live - Give me a right view of thy law, and thy truth, and I shall have…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 137-144Verses 137-144 God never did, and never can do wrong to any. The promises are faithfully performed by Him that made them. Zeal against sin should constrain us to do what we can against it, at least to do more in religion ourselves. Our love to the word of God is evidence of our love to God, because it is designed to make us partake his holiness. Men's real excellency always makes them low in their own eyes. When we are small and despised, we have the more…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 137-144Tsadhe (צ) is the eighteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. God is righteous, and his word is right and just, especially in contrast to the deceptions of the wicked.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 142-144142-144. The principles of God's government are permanent and reliable, and in the deepest distress His people find them a theme of delightful meditation and a source of reviving power (Psa 119:17, 116). law is the truth--It therefore cannot deceive as to its promises. everlasting--(Psa 111:3), though to outward appearance seeming dead. KOPH. (Psa 119:145-152).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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