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King James Version

Psalms 119:18

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Instruction;   Wisdom;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blindness, Spiritual;   Eye, the;   Law of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Law;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lydia;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Deaf and Dumb;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Will;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eye;   Open;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eye;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 18;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions.
English Revised Version
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Update Bible Version
Open my eyes, that I may look at Wondrous things out of your law.
New Century Version
Open my eyes to see the miracles in your teachings.
New English Translation
Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in your law!
Webster's Bible Translation
Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
World English Bible
Open my eyes, That I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Amplified Bible
Open my eyes [to spiritual truth] so that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law.
English Standard Version
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Liytne thou myn iyen; and Y schal biholde the merueils of thi lawe.
Berean Standard Bible
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
Contemporary English Version
Open my mind and let me discover the wonders of your Law.
American Standard Version
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.
Bible in Basic English
Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.
Complete Jewish Bible
Open my eyes, so that I will see wonders from your Torah.
Darby Translation
Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Easy-to-Read Version
Open my eyes so that I can see all the wonderful things in your teachings.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.
King James Version (1611)
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderous things out of thy Law.
New Life Bible
Open my eyes so that I may see great things from Your Law.
New Revised Standard
Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Open mine eies, that I may see the wonders of thy Lawe.
George Lamsa Translation
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Good News Translation
Open my eyes, so that I may see the wonderful truths in your law.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Unveil thou mine eyes, that I may discern Wondrous things out of thy law.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-18) Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.
Revised Standard Version
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Open thou myne eyes: and I will beholde the wonderous thynges of thy lawe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Unveil thou mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of thy law.
Christian Standard Bible®
Open my eyes so that I may contemplatewondrous things from your instruction.
Hebrew Names Version
Open my eyes, That I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Lexham English Bible
Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law.
Literal Translation
Open my eyes and I will see wonderful things from Your Law.
Young's Literal Translation
Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Open thou myne eyes, & so shal I spie out wonderous thinges in yi lawe.
New American Standard Bible
Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your Law.
New King James Version
Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law.
Legacy Standard Bible
Open my eyes, that I may beholdWonderful things from Your law.

Contextual Overview

18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Open: Heb. Reveal, Isaiah 29:10-12, Isaiah 29:18, Isaiah 32:3, Isaiah 35:5, Matthew 13:13, Matthew 16:17, John 9:39, Acts 26:18, 2 Corinthians 3:14-18, 2 Corinthians 4:4-6, Ephesians 1:17, Ephesians 1:18, Revelation 3:18

wondrous: Psalms 119:96, Hosea 8:12, 2 Corinthians 3:13, Hebrews 8:5, Hebrews 10:1

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:17 - open his eyes Psalms 119:7 - when Psalms 119:125 - that I Psalms 119:129 - testimonies Proverbs 14:6 - knowledge Proverbs 20:12 - General Daniel 9:13 - that we Matthew 20:33 - Lord Luke 11:34 - light of Luke 24:45 - General John 9:30 - and yet

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Open thou mine eyes,.... The eyes of my heart or understanding, as Kimchi; or, "reveal mine eyes" t; take off the veil from them: there is a veil of darkness and ignorance on the hearts of all men, with respect to divine and spiritual things; their understandings are darkened, yea, darkness itself. This veil must be removed; the scales must drop from their eyes; their eyes must be opened and enlightened, before they can discern spiritual things contained in the word of God; and even good men need to have the eyes of their understandings more and more enlightened into these things, as the psalmist here petitions, and the apostle prays for his Ephesians, Ephesians 1:17;

that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law; the law strictly taken, which had great and excellent things in it; and was wonderful for the compendiousness of it; for the justice, holiness, and equity of its precepts; especially for its spirituality, and above all for Christ, being the end of it; the two last more particularly could only be discerned by a spiritual man: or rather the five books of Moses, the almost only Scriptures extant in David's time, in which there were many wonderful things concerning Christ; some delivered by way of promise and prophecy of him, under the characters of the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, the Shiloh, and the great Prophet; and many others in dark figures, types, and shadows, which required a spiritual sight to look into; of which the rock and manna, the brasen serpent, passover, c. are instances: but rather, as the word "law" signifies "doctrine", the doctrine of the Gospel may be meant which contains mysteries in it, respecting the trinity of Persons in the Godhead, the person of Christ, his incarnation, sufferings and death; the blessings of grace through him; the doctrines of peace, pardon, righteousness, eternal life, and the resurrection of the dead; with many others.

t גל עיני "revela oculos meos", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis; "velamen detrahe oculis meis", Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Open thou mine eyes - Margin, “Reveal.” So the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate. The Hebrew word means to be naked; then to make naked, to uncover, to disclose, to reveal. Here it is the same as “uncover;” that is, take away from the eyes what is before them to prevent clear vision. Compare Numbers 22:31; Numbers 24:4, Numbers 24:16.

That I may behold wondrous things - Things which are suited to excite wonder and amazement: that is, things which are secret or hidden from the common view; the deep, spiritual meaning of the word of God. By natural vision he might see the surface - the letter; to see the deep, hidden, real, meaning, he needed the special influence of God. Compare 1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 Corinthians 2:14-15. He believed that there were such things in the law of God; he desired to see them.

Out of thy law - Out of the written word; out of the Scriptures. The word “law” here is used to denote “all” that God had revealed to mankind; all that is contained in the volume of inspiration. The truths taught here are

(1) That there are deep, hidden, secret things in the word of God, which are not perceived by the natural man;

(2) That those things, when understood, are suited to excite wonder, or to fill the mind with admiring views of God;

(3) That a special illumination of God is necessary that man may perceive these things; and

(4) That the proper understanding of these things is connected with prayer, and can be hoped for only in answer to prayer.

No one has a proper appreciation of divine truth - of the beauty, the spiritual meaning, the grandeur, the sublimity of the Bible - until he is a renewed - a praying - man. Compare the notes at 1 Corinthians 2:6-15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:18. Open thou mine eyes — גל עיני gal eynai, reveal my eyes, illuminate my understanding, take away the veil that is on my heart, and then shall I see wonders in thy law. The Holy Scriptures are plain enough; but the heart of man is darkened by sin. The Bible does not so much need a comment, as the soul does the light of the Holy Spirit. Were it not for the darkness of the human intellect, the things relative to salvation would be easily apprehended.


 
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