Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Psalms 119:66 in other translations
| BSB | Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments. |
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| WEB | Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. |
| ASV | Teach me good judgment and knowledge; For I have believed in thy commandments. |
| YLT | The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed. |
| DARBY | Teach me good discernment and knowledge; for I have believed in thy commandments. |
| BBE | Give me knowledge and good sense; for I have put my faith in your teachings. |
| Webster | Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. |
What does Psalms 119:66 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:65-67
65-67. The reliance on promises (Psa 119:49) is strengthened by experience of past dealings according with promises, and a prayer for guidance, encouraged by sanctified affliction.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:65-72
However God has dealt with us, he has dealt with us better than we deserve; and all in love, and for our good. Many have knowledge, but little judgment; those who have both, are fortified against the snares of Satan, and furnished for the service of God. We are most apt to wander from God, when we are easy in the world. We should leave our concerns to the disposal of God, seeing we know not what is good for us…
Psalms 119:66 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:66
- Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
- Proverbs 2:1-9
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; …
- 1 Kings 3:9
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
- James 3:13-18
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. …
- Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
- Isaiah 11:2-4
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
- Psalms 119:172
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
- Psalms 119:160
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
- Matthew 13:11
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
- Psalms 119:128
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Psalms 72:1-2
A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son. He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
- Nehemiah 9:13-14
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
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Context
- Psalms 119:65
ט TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word.
- Psalms 119:66
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
- Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
Psalms 119:66 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Enséñame bondad de sentido y sabiduría; porque tus mandamientos he creído. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Enseigne-moi le bon sens et la connaissance; car j’ai ajouté foi à tes commandements. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gute Einsicht und Erkenntnis lehre mich! denn ich habe deinen Geboten geglaubt. |