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King James Version

Psalms 86:11

Teach me thy way, O Lord ; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Decision;   Desire;   Fear of God;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Truth;   Walk;   Walking;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fear, Godly;   Heart, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Truth;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of;   Will;   Worship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Prayer;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Godliness;   Nomism;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Teach me your ways, O Lord , that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.
English Revised Version
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Update Bible Version
Teach me your way, O Yahweh; I will walk in your truth: Unite my heart to fear your name.
New Century Version
Lord , teach me what you want me to do, and I will live by your truth. Teach me to respect you completely.
New English Translation
O Lord , teach me how you want me to live! Then I will obey your commands. Make me wholeheartedly committed to you!
Webster's Bible Translation
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
World English Bible
Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
Amplified Bible
Teach me Your way, O LORD, I will walk and live in Your truth; Direct my heart to fear Your name [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].
English Standard Version
Teach me your way, O Lord , that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, lede thou me forth in thi weie, and Y schal entre in thi treuthe; myn herte be glad, that it drede thi name.
Berean Standard Bible
Teach me Your way, O LORD, and I will walk in Your truth. Grant me undividedness of heart so that I may fear Your name.
Contemporary English Version
Teach me to follow you, and I will obey your truth. Always keep me faithful.
American Standard Version
Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: Unite my heart to fear thy name.
Bible in Basic English
Make your way clear to me, O Lord; I will go on my way in your faith: let my heart be glad in the fear of your name.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai , teach me your way, so that I can live by your truth; make me single-hearted, so that I can fear your name.
Darby Translation
Teach me thy way, Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , teach me your ways, and I will live and obey your truths. Help me make worshiping your name the most important thing in my life.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Teach me, O LORD, Thy way, that I may walk in Thy truth;
King James Version (1611)
Teach me thy way, O Lord, I will walke in thy trueth: vnite my heart to feare thy Name.
New Life Bible
Teach me Your way, O Lord. I will walk in Your truth. May my heart fear Your name.
New Revised Standard
Teach me your way, O Lord , that I may walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart to revere your name.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Teach me thy way, O Lorde, and I will walke in thy trueth: knit mine heart vnto thee, that I may feare thy Name.
George Lamsa Translation
Show me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in the truth; my heart will rejoice with them that worship thy name.
Good News Translation
Teach me, Lord , what you want me to do, and I will obey you faithfully; teach me to serve you with complete devotion.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Point out to me, O Yahweh, thy way, I will walk steadfastly in thy truth, My heart will rejoice to revere thy Name.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(85-11) Conduct me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice that it may fear thy name.
Revised Standard Version
Teach me thy way, O LORD, that I may walk in thy truth; unite my heart to fear thy name.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Teache me thy way O God, and I wyll walke in thy trueth: make my heart all one with thyne, that it may feare thy name.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Guide me, O Lord, in thy way, and I will walk in thy truth: let my heart rejoice, that I may fear thy name.
Christian Standard Bible®
Teach me your way, Lord,and I will live by your truth.Give me an undivided mind to fear your name.
Hebrew Names Version
Teach me your way, LORD. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.
Lexham English Bible
Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, that I may walk in your truth. Unite my heart to fear your name.
Literal Translation
Teach me Your way, O Jehovah; I will walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name.
Young's Literal Translation
Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Lede me in thy waye (o LORDE) that I maye walke in thy trueth: O let my hert delyte in fearynge thy name.
THE MESSAGE
Train me, God , to walk straight; then I'll follow your true path. Put me together, one heart and mind; then, undivided, I'll worship in joyful fear. From the bottom of my heart I thank you, dear Lord; I've never kept secret what you're up to. You've always been great toward me—what love! You snatched me from the brink of disaster! God, these bullies have reared their heads! A gang of thugs is after me— and they don't care a thing about you. But you, O God, are both tender and kind, not easily angered, immense in love, and you never, never quit. So look me in the eye and show kindness, give your servant the strength to go on, save your dear, dear child! Make a show of how much you love me so the bullies who hate me will stand there slack-jawed, As you, God , gently and powerfully put me back on my feet.
New American Standard Bible
Teach me Your way, LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
New King James Version
Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Teach me Your way, O Lord ; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.
Legacy Standard Bible
Teach me Your way, O Yahweh;I will walk in Your truth;Unite my heart to fear Your name.

Contextual Overview

8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works. 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name. 10 For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord ; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. 12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. 13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell. 14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. 15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. 16 O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid. 17 Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord , hast holpen me, and comforted me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Teach: Psalms 5:8, Psalms 25:4, Psalms 25:12, Psalms 27:11, Psalms 119:33, Psalms 119:73, Psalms 143:8-10, Job 34:32, John 6:45, John 6:46, Ephesians 4:21

I will: Psalms 26:3, Psalms 119:30, Malachi 2:6, 2 John 1:4, 3 John 1:3, 3 John 1:4

unite: Jeremiah 32:38, Jeremiah 32:39, Hosea 10:2, Hosea 14:8, Zephaniah 1:5, Matthew 6:22-24, John 17:20, John 17:21, Acts 2:46, 1 Corinthians 6:17, 1 Corinthians 10:21, 2 Corinthians 11:3, Colossians 3:17, Colossians 3:22, Colossians 3:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 5:22 - General Exodus 33:13 - show 1 Samuel 18:1 - the soul of Jonathan 1 Chronicles 12:17 - heart Psalms 119:12 - teach Psalms 119:26 - teach Jeremiah 42:3 - General Acts 9:31 - and walking Ephesians 6:5 - in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Teach me thy way, O Lord,.... The methods of thy grace, which thou hast taken, and dost take, in the salvation of men, in the contrivance, impetration, and application of it; or the way which thou hast marked out for thy people to walk in, the way of thy commandments: each of these the psalmist had knowledge of before; but he desires to be more and more instructed therein, as every good man does; see

Psalms 25:4.

I will walk in thy truth; in Christ, the truth of types, and by whom grace and truth came, and who is truth itself, and the true way to eternal life; and to walk in him is to walk by faith in him, in hope of eternal happiness through him, John 1:17 or in the truth of the Gospel, of Gospel doctrine, Gospel worship, and Gospel conversation; to walk in it is to walk becoming it, and abide by it, its truths and ordinances; see 2 John 1:4

unite my heart to fear thy name; there must be an heart given to man to fear the Lord; for the fear of the Lord is not naturally in their hearts, or before their eyes; and they should have, not a divided and distracted heart, an heart divided between God and the world, between the fear of God and the fear of man; but a heart united to the Lord, that cleaves to him, and him only; a single and a sincere heart; a heart that has a single view to his glory, and a sincere affection for him; and such a heart the Lord has promised to give to his people, in order to fear him, Jeremiah 32:39.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Teach me thy way, O Lord - That is, in the present emergency. Show me what thou wouldst have me to do that I may obtain thy favor, and thy gracious help.

I will walk in thy truth - I will live and act in accordance with what thou dost declare to be true. Whatever that may be, I will pursue it, having no will of my own.

Unite my heart to fear thy name - That is, to worship, obey, and honor thee.

(a) The end which he desired to secure was that he might truly fear God, or properly reverence and honor him;

(b) the means which he saw to be necessary for this was that his “heart” might be “united” in this one great object; that is, that his heart might be single in its views and purposes; that there might be no distracting purposes; that one great aim might be always before him.

The word rendered “unite” - יחד yāchad - occurs as a verb only in three places. In Genesis 49:6, it is rendered united: “Unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united.” In Isaiah 14:20, it is translated joined: “Thou shalt not be joined with them.” The adverb - יחד yachad, occurs often, and is rendered together, Genesis 13:6; Genesis 22:6, Genesis 22:8,Genesis 22:19; Genesis 36:7; et saepe. The idea is that of union, or conjunction; of being together; of constituting one; and this is accomplished in the heart when there is one great ruling object before the mind which nothing is allowed to interfere with. It may be added, that there is no more appropriate prayer which a man can offer than that his heart may have such a unity of purpose, and that nothing may be allowed to interfere with that one supreme purpose.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 86:11. Teach me thy way — Instruct me in the steps I should take; for without thy teaching I must go astray.

Unite my heart — יחד לבבי yached lebabi, join all the purposes, resolutions, and affections of my heart together, to fear and to glorify thy name. This is a most important prayer. A divided heart is a great curse; scattered affections are a miserable plague. When the heart is not at unity with itself, the work of religion cannot go on. Indecision of mind and division of affections mar any work. The heart must be one, that the work may be one. If this be wanting, all is wrong. This is a prayer which becomes the mouth of every Christian.


 
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