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Psalms 119:169
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Let my cry come before you, LORD. Give me understanding according to your word.
Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord : give me understanding according to thy word.
Taw
Let my cry come before you, O Lord ; give me understanding according to your word!Hear my cry to you, Lord . Let your word help me understand.
ת (Tav)
Listen to my cry for help, O Lord ! Give me insight by your word!Let my [mournful] cry come before You, O LORD; Give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart] according to Your word [of promise].
Let my cry come before You, LORD; Give me understanding according to Your word.
Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.
Tav. Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord, and giue me vnderstanding, according vnto thy worde.
Let my cry of lamentation come near before You, O Yahweh;Give me understanding according to Your word.
May my cry come before You, O LORD; give me understanding according to Your word.
Please, Lord , hear my prayer and give me the understanding that comes from your word.
ת (Tav)
Let my cry come before you, Adonai ; in keeping with your word, give me understanding.TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, Jehovah: give me understanding according to thy word.
Lord , listen to my cry for help. Make me wise, as you promised.
TAU. Let my cry come before thee, O LORD; save me according to thy word.
Let my cry for help reach you, Lord ! Give me understanding, as you have promised.
Let my cry come before you, O Yahweh; give me understanding according to your word.
TAU: Let my cry come near You, O Jehovah; give me wisdom according to Your Word.
Let my coplaynte come before the (o LORDE) geue me vnderstondinge, acordinge vnto thy worde.
ת Tav.
Let my cry come near before thee, O Jehovah: Give me understanding according to thy word.TAU. Let my cry come near before Thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to Thy word.
[TAV.] Let my crie come neere before thee, O Lord: giue mee vnderstanding according to thy worde.
Let my crye O God approche neare vnto thy face: make me to vnderstande [euery thyng] accordyng vnto thy worde.
Let my supplication come near before thee, o Lord; instruct me according to thine oracle.
Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
Lord, my biseching come niy in thi siyt; bi thi speche yyue thou vndurstonding to me.
TAV Let my cry come near before you, O Yahweh: Give me understanding according to your word.
TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
Let my cry come before You, O LORD; Give me understanding according to Your word.
Taw
O Lord , listen to my cry; give me the discerning mind you promised.Let my cry come to You, O Lord. Give me understanding because of Your Word.
Let my cry come before you, O Lord ; give me understanding according to your word.
[TAU] Let my shouting come near before thee, O Yahweh, According to thy word, give me understanding.
(118-169) Let my supplication, O Lord, come near in thy sight: give me understanding according to thy word.
Let my cry come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding according to thy word!
[Taw.] My loud cry cometh near before Thee, O Jehovah; According to Thy word cause me to understand.
Let my cry come right into your presence, God ; provide me with the insight that comes only from your Word. Give my request your personal attention, rescue me on the terms of your promise. Let praise cascade off my lips; after all, you've taught me the truth about life! And let your promises ring from my tongue; every order you've given is right. Put your hand out and steady me since I've chosen to live by your counsel. I'm homesick, God , for your salvation; I love it when you show yourself! Invigorate my soul so I can praise you well, use your decrees to put iron in my soul. And should I wander off like a lost sheep—seek me! I'll recognize the sound of your voice.
Tav.
Let my cry come before You, O Lord ; Give me understanding according to Your word.Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Let my cry: Psalms 119:145, Psalms 18:6, 2 Chronicles 30:27
give me: Psalms 119:144, 1 Chronicles 22:12, 2 Chronicles 1:10, Proverbs 2:3-5, Daniel 2:21, James 1:5
Reciprocal: Psalms 119:73 - give me Psalms 119:108 - teach
Gill's Notes on the Bible
t, TAU.--The Twenty-second and last Part.
Ver. 169. TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord,.... Not "my praise", as the Syriac version; but "my prayer", put up in great distress, and with great vehemence and importunity; see
Psalms 119:145; and when it is desired it might "come near before" the Lord, it does not so much suppose distance of place between the petitioner and the petitioned as earth is from heaven, as Aben Ezra observes, as distance of state and condition; the petitioner being a creature, and a sinful creature, and whose sins had separated between God and him: and now the only way of access is by Christ; prayer can only pass to God through him, who is the only Mediator between God and man; by whom persons and services are brought near unto, him with acceptance. The sum of this request is, that his prayer might not be rejected and shut out; but that it might be admitted, might come up before God, and into his ears, and be regarded by him, and accepted with him;
give me understanding according to thy word; meaning not natural, but spiritual understanding; not that he was without any, as natural men are, whose understandings are darkened; for he had a large share of understanding of spiritual things; but he wanted more, he desired to know more of himself, of his wants and weaknesses; to know more of God in Christ, and of Christ, his person, offices, and grace; to know more of the doctrines of the word, and of the duties of religion; and particularly that he might have a better understanding of the business of prayer, and might know both what to pray for, and how to pray as he ought; all which is a gift from God: and he desires in all to be directed "according to the word" of God, the means of enlightening the understanding, and of increasing spiritual knowledge; or else he means the promise of God, that he would give him more knowledge and understanding; that he might be taught of God, and follow on to know him, and increase in every branch of spiritual knowledge.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Let my cry come near before thee, O Lord - This commences a new division of the psalm, indicated by the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the letter Tau (ט ṭ), corresponding to our “t,” or “th.” The petition here is, that his prayer might be heard; that it might come into the very presence of God; that there might be no obstructions to its reaching where God was. Let nothing from my unworthiness, from my past sins, from my ignorance, prevent its coming before thee. Something often apparently hinders our prayers so that they do not reach the ear of God. The psalmist prays here that there may be no such hindrance in the prayer which he now offers.
Give me understanding according to thy word - According to the promises of thy word; or, give me the same views of truth which are set forth in thy word. This prayer had been several times offered before, and it shows how earnest was his desire to know the truth. See Psalms 119:34, Psalms 119:73,Psalms 119:144.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
LETTER ת TAU. - Twenty-second Division
Verse 169. Let my cry come near before thee — This is really a fine image; it is of frequent occurrence, and is little heeded. Here the psalmists cry for deliverance is personified; made an intelligent being, and sent up to the throne of grace to negotiate in his behalf. He pursues this prosopopoeia in the next verse, and sends his supplication in the same way. I have already had occasion to refer to a similar figure in Homer, where prayers are represented as the daughters of Jupiter. See on Psalms 88:2.
