Psalms 119:48
46 I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.
47 I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
49 Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
50 This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
- KJV
- My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
- WEB
- I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
- ASV
- I will lift up my hands also unto thy commandments, which I have loved; And I will meditate on thy statutes. ZAYIN.
- DARBY
- And I will lift up my hands unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes.
- BLB
- And I will lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate on Your statutes.
- ÅB
- Jeg løfter mine hender til dine bud, som jeg elsker, og jeg vil grunde på dine forskrifter.
- OTB
- Og jeg skal løfte mine hender til dine bud, som jeg elsker;
Og jeg vil tenke på dine forskrifter. - B1930
- Jeg løfter mine hender til dine bud, som jeg elsker, og jeg vil grunde på dine forskrifter.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 119:15
I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
Read in contextMatthew 7:21
Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Read in contextPsalms 1:2
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
Read in contextJohn 15:14
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
Read in contextJohn 13:17
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Read in contextEzekiel 44:12
Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD.
Read in contextJames 1:22–25
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
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