Psalms 119:125

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

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I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

BSB

I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies.

KJV

I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

ASV

I am thy servant; give me understanding, That I may know thy testimonies.

BBE

I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.

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The early church

"I am Your servant. O grant me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies" [Psalm 119:125]. This petition must never be intermitted. For it suffices not to have received understanding, and to have learned the testimonies of God, unless it be evermore received, and evermore in a manner quaffed from the fountain of eternal light. For the testimonies of God are the better and the better known, the more understanding a man attains to.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 121–128

Happy is the man, who, acting upon gospel principles, does justice to all around. Christ our Surety, having paid our debt and ransom, secures all the blessings of salvation to every true believer. The psalmist expects the word of God's righteousness, and no other salvation than what is secured by that word, which cannot fall to the ground. We deserve no favour form God; we are most easy when we cast ourselves upon God's mercy, and refer ourselves to it. If any man resolve to do God's will as his servant, he shall be made to know his testimonies. We must do what we can for the support of religion, and, after all, must beg of God to take the work into his own hands. It is hypocrisy to say we love God's commandments more than our worldly interests. The way of sin is a false way, being directly contrary to God's precepts, which are right: those that love and esteem God's law, hate sin, and will not be reconciled to it.

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