Psalms 119:144

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can 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 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.
• Jer 4:22 : 22 The 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.”
• Dan 12:10 : 10 Many 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.
• Ps 119:169 : 169 ת(Tav) Listen to my cry for help, O LORD! Give me insight by your word!
• Prov 10:21 : 21 The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of sense.
• Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’ 10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
• Ps 19:9 : 9 The commands to fear the LORD are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the LORD are trustworthy and absolutely just.
• Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.
• Ps 119:66 : 66 Teach me proper discernment and understanding! For I consider your commands to be reliable.
• Ps 119:73 : 73 י(Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.
• Ps 119:138 : 138 The rules you impose are just, and absolutely reliable.
• Ps 119:152 : 152 I learned long ago that you ordained your rules to last.
• Hos 4:6 : 6 You 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.
• Matt 5:18 : 18 I 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.
• Matt 13:19 : 19 When 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 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For 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 Pet 1:23-25 : 23 You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the grass; the grass withers and the flower falls off, 25 but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
• 1 John 5:20-21 : 20 And 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. 21 Little children, guard yourselves from idols.