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King James Version

Psalms 119:32

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Instruction;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, Character of the Renewed;  

Dictionaries:

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

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 25;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I will pursue your commands, for you expand my understanding.
English Revised Version
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Update Bible Version
I will run the way of your commandments, When you shall enlarge my heart.
New Century Version
I will quickly obey your commands, because you have made me happy.
New English Translation
I run along the path of your commands, for you enable me to do so.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
World English Bible
I run in the path of your commandments, For you have set my heart free.
Amplified Bible
I will run the way of Your commandments [with purpose], For You will give me a heart that is willing.
English Standard Version
I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I ran the weie of thi comaundementis; whanne thou alargidist myn herte.
Berean Standard Bible
I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
Contemporary English Version
I am eager to learn all that you want me to do; help me to understand more and more.
American Standard Version
I will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Bible in Basic English
I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will run the way of your mitzvot, for you have broadened my understanding.
Darby Translation
I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
Easy-to-Read Version
I do my best to follow your commands, because you are the one who gives me the desire.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will run the way of Thy commandments, for Thou dost enlarge my heart.
King James Version (1611)
I will runne the way of thy Commandements: when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
New Life Bible
I will run the way of Your Law, for You will give me a willing heart.
New Revised Standard
I run the way of your commandments, for you enlarge my understanding.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I will runne the way of thy commaundements, when thou shalt enlarge mine heart.
George Lamsa Translation
I have walked in the way of thy commandments, because thou hast made me joyful.
Good News Translation
I will eagerly obey your commands, because you will give me more understanding.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The way of thy commandments, will I run, for thou wilt enlarge my heart.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-32) I have run the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.
Revised Standard Version
I will run in the way of thy commandments when thou enlargest my understanding!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll runne the way of thy commaundementes: when thou shalt set my heart at libertie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I ran the way of thy commandments, when thou didst enlarge my heart.
Christian Standard Bible®
I pursue the way of your commands,for you broaden my understanding.
Hebrew Names Version
I run in the path of your mitzvot, For you have set my heart free.
Lexham English Bible
I will run the way of your commands, for you will enlarge my heart.
Literal Translation
I will run the way of Your Commands, for You shall enlarge my heart.
Young's Literal Translation
The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil rune the waye of thy commaundementes, when thou hast comforted my herte.
New American Standard Bible
I shall run the way of Your commandments, For You will enlarge my heart.
New King James Version
I will run the course of Your commandments, For You shall enlarge my heart.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I shall run the way of Your commandments, For You will enlarge my heart.
Legacy Standard Bible
I shall run the way of Your commandments,For You will enlarge my heart.

Contextual Overview

30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. 31 I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord , put me not to shame. 32 I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

run: Song of Solomon 1:4, Isaiah 40:31, 1 Corinthians 9:24-26, Hebrews 12:1

enlarge: Psalms 119:45, Psalms 18:36, 1 Kings 4:29, Job 36:15, Job 36:16, Isaiah 60:5, Isaiah 61:1, Luke 1:74, Luke 1:75, John 8:32, John 8:36, 2 Corinthians 3:17, 2 Corinthians 6:11, 1 Peter 2:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:1 - Jacob Psalms 119:5 - General Psalms 139:24 - and lead Ezekiel 11:20 - they may Matthew 26:41 - the spirit Acts 8:30 - ran thither Romans 6:18 - made Romans 7:15 - what Romans 7:18 - for to will 1 Corinthians 9:21 - not Galatians 5:17 - the flesh James 1:25 - the perfect 1 John 2:3 - if we

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will run the way of thy commandments,.... Not only walk but run in it; which is expressive of great affection to the commands of God, of great readiness and cheerfulness, of great haste and swiftness in the way of them, and of great delight and pleasure therein;

when thou shall enlarge my heart; with the knowledge of God, his word, ways, worship, and ordinances; with his love more fully made known, and with an increase of love to him; with the fear of him, and a flow of spiritual joy and peace; and when delivered from straits and difficulties, from weights and pressures, and everything that may hinder walking or running; and being in circumstances which may lead and encourage to the one as to the other; see 1 Kings 4:29

Isaiah 60:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will run the way of thy commandments - That is, I will not merely keep them - which might be expressed by “I will walk in them,” but I will hasten to keep them; I will do it with alacrity, as when one runs to accomplish an object. I will devote to them all the energies of my life.

When thou shalt enlarge my heart - Or, more literally, “For thou wilt enlarge my heart;” expressing confidence that God would do this, so that he would be thus inclined and enabled to keep his commandments. it is an acknowledgment of dependence, and at the same time the expression of a confident belief that God would grant him the grace needful for him. The phrase “to enlarge the heart” means to make it free; to deliver it from all hindrances to what is right; to fill it with noble and holy purposes; to stimulate and animate it. The heart is contracted or made narrow by selfishness, pride, vanity, ambition, covetousness; it is made large by charity, love, hope, benevolence. Sin narrows the soul; religion enlarges it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:32. I will run — The particle כי, which we translate when, should be translated because: Because thou shalt enlarge, or dilate, my heart; make plain my path by cleansing me from my impurity, and taking the hinderances out of my way. I will then run without dread of stumbling, and every day make sensible progress.

ANALYSIS OF LETTER DALETH. - Fourth Division

The psalmist -

I. Sets down the state of an imperfect man.

II. Confesses it.

III. Asks grace and mercy.

IV. Professes what in consequence he would do.

I. 1. "My soul cleaveth unto the dust:" His affections cleaved to things below, instead of being set on things above.

2. "Quicken thou me:" Give me a life according to thy law. By cleaving to the earth, he was earthly; by cleaving to the flesh, he was carnal; but by living according to the spiritual law, he was to become one spirit with God.

II. He confesses his imperfections.

1. "I have declared my ways." I acknowledge all my wanderings, sins, follies, and unfaithfulness, I have hidden nothing from thee.

2. Thou didst hear me; forgavest me out of thy mere mercy.

3. Do the like now: "Teach me thy statutes." These two things should be sought together: mercy to pardon, and grace to assist and renew.

III. He proceeds in this prayer.

1. "Make me to understand:" Where the mind is darkened, the heart cannot be well ordered.

2. He that asks good things from God should ask them for a good end: "Make me to understand; so shall I talk," &c.

3. He would show God's wondrous works: I shall talk of thy wondrous law, - thy wondrous Gospel, - thy wondrous mercy in saving sinners, - the wondrous means thou usest, &c.

IV. He returns to his confession, and states what he purposes to do.

1. "My soul melts:" I am full of trouble and distress.

2. "Strengthen thou me:" Give me the grace thou hast promised.

3. "Remove from me the way of lying:" Give me power to avoid all sin.

4. "Grant me thy law graciously:" Print the matter of it in my heart, and abolish my corruption.

5. He chooses the truth.

6. He adheres to it.

7. He will continue in it.

8. Yea, and with greater diligence than ever. To make up for lost time, he will now run: and, while running, keep in God's way. Some run, but they run out of it.


 
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