the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Psalms 119:18
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Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions.
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Open my eyes, that I may look at Wondrous things out of your law.
Open my eyes to see the miracles in your teachings.
Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in your law!
Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Open my eyes, That I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Open my eyes [to spiritual truth] so that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law.
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Liytne thou myn iyen; and Y schal biholde the merueils of thi lawe.
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
Open my mind and let me discover the wonders of your Law.
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.
Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.
Open my eyes, so that I will see wonders from your Torah.
Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Open my eyes so that I can see all the wonderful things in your teachings.
Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law.
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wonderous things out of thy Law.
Open my eyes so that I may see great things from Your Law.
Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Open mine eies, that I may see the wonders of thy Lawe.
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Open my eyes, so that I may see the wonderful truths in your law.
Unveil thou mine eyes, that I may discern Wondrous things out of thy law.
(118-18) Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Open thou myne eyes: and I will beholde the wonderous thynges of thy lawe.
Unveil thou mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of thy law.
Open my eyes so that I may contemplatewondrous things from your instruction.
Open my eyes, That I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law.
Open my eyes and I will see wonderful things from Your Law.
Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.
Open thou myne eyes, & so shal I spie out wonderous thinges in yi lawe.
Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your Law.
Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.
Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law.
Open my eyes, that I may beholdWonderful things from Your law.
Contextual Overview
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.
