Psalms 119:144

American Standard Version (1901)

Thy testimonies are righteous for ever: Give me understanding, and I shall live.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צֶ֖דֶק עֵדְוֺתֶ֥יךָ לְעוֹלָ֗ם הֲבִינֵ֥נִי וְאֶחְיֶֽה׃

Transliteration

ṣeḏeq ʿēḏwōtêkā to ʿôlām hăḇînēnî wəʾeḥyeh

Grammar Details

• *ṣeḏeq*: masculine singular noun - righteousness
• *ʿēḏwōtêkā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your testimonies
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - eternity/forever
• *hăḇînēnî*: imperative, masculine singular, hiphil with 1st person singular suffix - make me understand
• *wəʾeḥyeh*: conjunction + imperfect/cohortative, 1st person singular, qal - and I will live

Word Meanings

• *ṣeḏeq*: righteousness/justice/rightness
• *ʿēḏwōtêkā*: your testimonies/your witnesses/your laws
• *ʿôlām*: eternity/forever/perpetuity
• *hăḇînēnî*: make me understand/give me discernment/cause me to perceive
• *ʾeḥyeh*: I will live/I will survive/I will be revived

Referenced Verses

• Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
• Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Dan 12:10 : 10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand.
• Ps 119:169 : 169 TAV. Let my cry come near before thee, O Jehovah: Give me understanding according to thy word.
• Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
• Isa 6:9-9 : 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.
• Ps 19:9 : 9 The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Jehovah are true, [and] righteous altogether.
• Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
• Ps 119:66 : 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge; For I have believed in thy commandments.
• Ps 119:73 : 73 YODH. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
• Ps 119:138 : 138 Thou hast commanded thy testimonies in righteousness And very faithfulness.
• Ps 119:152 : 152 Of old have I known from thy testimonies, That thou hast founded them for ever.
• Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
• Matt 5:18 : 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished.
• Matt 13:19 : 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, [then] cometh the evil [one], and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 1:23-25 : 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth. 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: 25 But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.
• 1 John 5:20-21 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life. 21 [ My] little children, guard yourselves from idols.