Psalms 119:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in your law!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּל־עֵינַ֥י וְאַבִּ֑יטָה נִ֝פְלָא֗וֹת מִתּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

gal-ʿênay and-ʾabbîṭâ nip̄lāʾôt from-tôrāteḵā

Grammar Details

• *gal*-*ʿênay*: Piel imperative masculine singular + feminine dual noun + 1st person singular suffix - uncover my eyes
• and-*ʾabbîṭâ*: conjunction *wə* + Hiphil cohortative 1st person singular - and I will look at
• *nip̄lāʾôt*: Niphal participle feminine plural - wonderful things
• from-*tôrāteḵā*: preposition *min* + feminine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from your law

Word Meanings

• *gal*: uncover/open/reveal
• *ʿênay*: my eyes/sight/perception
• *ʾabbîṭâ*: I will look at/see/behold/observe
• *nip̄lāʾôt*: wonderful things/marvelous things/miracles
• *tôrāteḵā*: your law/instruction/teaching/direction

Referenced Verses

• Eph 1:17-18 : 17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him, 18 – since the eyes of your heart have been enlightened– so that you can know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
• Isa 29:18 : 18 At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.
• Isa 32:3 : 3 Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• 2 Cor 3:13-18 : 13 and not like Moses who used to put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from staring at the result of the glory that was made ineffective. 14 But their minds were closed. For to this very day, the same veil remains when they hear the old covenant read. It has not been removed because only in Christ is it taken away. 15 But until this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds, 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom. 18 And we all, with unveiled faces reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, which is from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
• 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God. 5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake. 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.
• Ps 119:96 : 96 I realize that everything has its limits, but your commands are beyond full comprehension.
• Isa 29:10-12 : 10 For the LORD has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes(the prophets), and covered your heads(the seers). 11 To you this entire prophetic revelation is like words in a sealed scroll. When they hand it to one who can read and say,“Read this,” he responds,“I can’t, because it is sealed.” 12 Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say,“Read this,” he says,“I can’t read.”
• Isa 35:5 : 5 Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.
• Hos 8:12 : 12 I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!
• Matt 13:13 : 13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.
• Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered him,“You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!
• John 9:39 : 39 Jesus said,]“For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”
• Heb 8:5 : 5 The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”
• Heb 10:1 : 1 Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship.
• Rev 3:18 : 18 take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!