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Complete Jewish Bible

Psalms 119:138

You have commanded your instructions in righteousness and great faithfulness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- The Topic Concordance - Faith/faithfulness;   Law;   Purity;   Righteousness;   Truth;   Witness;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Righteousness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Faithful;   Judgments of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Faithful,;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The decrees you issue are righteousand altogether trustworthy.
Hebrew Names Version
You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
King James Version
Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
English Standard Version
You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.
New Century Version
The rules you commanded are right and completely trustworthy.
New English Translation
The rules you impose are just, and absolutely reliable.
Amplified Bible
You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness And in great faithfulness.
New American Standard Bible
You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness And great faithfulness.
World English Bible
You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast commaunded iustice by thy testimonies and trueth especially.
Legacy Standard Bible
In righteousness, You have commanded Your testimoniesAnd in exceeding faithfulness.
Berean Standard Bible
The testimonies You have laid down are righteous and altogether faithful.
Contemporary English Version
All of your teachings are true and trustworthy.
Darby Translation
Thou hast commanded thy testimonies in righteousness and exceeding faithfulness.
Easy-to-Read Version
The rules you have given us are right. We can trust them completely.
George Lamsa Translation
Thou hast commanded thy testimony in righteousness and faithfulness.
Good News Translation
The rules that you have given are completely fair and right.
Lexham English Bible
You have ordained your testimonies in righteousness, and in exceeding faithfulness.
Literal Translation
You have enjoined Your Testimonies as righteous and very faithful.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The testimonies that thou hast commauded, are exceadinge rightuous and true.
American Standard Version
Thou hast commanded thy testimonies in righteousness And very faithfulness.
Bible in Basic English
You have given your unchanging word in righteousness, and it is for ever.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast commanded Thy testimonies in righteousness and exceeding faithfulness.
King James Version (1611)
Thy testimonies that thou hast commaunded, are righteous: and very faithfull.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast commaunded the iustice and the veritie of thy testimonies: [to be obserued] very strayghtly.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou has commanded righteousness and perfect truth, as thy testimonies.
English Revised Version
Thou hast commanded thy testimonies in righteousness and very faithfulness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou hast comaundid riytfulnesse, thi witnessingis; and thi treuthe greetli to be kept.
Update Bible Version
You have commanded your testimonies in righteousness And very faithfulness.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thy testimonies [that] thou hast commanded [are] righteous and very faithful.
New King James Version
Your testimonies, which You have commanded, Are righteous and very faithful.
New Living Translation
Your laws are perfect and completely trustworthy.
New Life Bible
The Law You have made is right and good and very faithful.
New Revised Standard
You have appointed your decrees in righteousness and in all faithfulness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou hast righteously commanded thy testimonies, yea in great faithfulness.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-138) Thou hast commanded justice thy testimonies: and thy truth exceedingly.
Revised Standard Version
Thou hast appointed thy testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.
Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast appointed Thy testimonies, Righteous and exceeding faithful,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness And exceeding faithfulness.

Contextual Overview

137

צ (Tzadeh)

You are righteous, Adonai ; and your rulings are upright. 138 You have commanded your instructions in righteousness and great faithfulness.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

testimonies: Psalms 119:86, Psalms 119:144, Psalms 19:7-9, Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 4:45

righteous: Heb. righteousness

faithful: Heb. faithfulness, Psalms 119:75

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:3 - testimonies Psalms 19:9 - judgments Psalms 93:5 - Thy Psalms 119:151 - all Psalms 119:160 - Thy word is true from the beginning Psalms 119:172 - for all thy Isaiah 45:19 - speak righteousness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded [are] righteous,.... The Scriptures are holy, just, and good; and what is contained in them are according to godliness; are for instruction in righteousness, and teach men to live soberly, righteously, and godly;

and very faithful; or "true" u: all the sayings in them are true and faithful sayings; for they are the sayings of God that cannot lie; the promises in them are faithfully performed by him that made them; they are all yea and amen in Christ. The words may be rendered, "thou hast commanded righteousness [in] thy testimonies, and truth" or faith "exceedingly": so the Arabic version. God in the law requires of men a perfect righteousness, every way agreeable to its demands; and in his Gospel he reveals the complete righteousness of his Son, which he has commanded to be published in it, to be laid hold on and received by faith as a justifying righteousness, as it is to all that believe: this, with every other truth of the Gospel, is made manifest by the Scriptures according to the commandment of the everlasting God,

Romans 16:25.

u ואמונה מאד "et verissimae", Vatablus, "veritas valde, i.e. prorsus verissima", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded - Thy law, considered as a testimony as to what is right and best.

Are righteous and very faithful - Margin, as in Hebrew, “righteousness and faithfulness.” They are “so” righteous, and so deserving of confidence - so certain to be accomplished, and so worthy to be trusted in - that they may be spoken of as “righteousness” and “fidelity” of the most perfect kind; the very essence of that which is right.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:138. Thy testimonies — Every thing that proceeds from thee partakes of the perfections of thy nature.


 
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