Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Parallel translations
- WEB Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- KJV Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
- NKJV Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- NASB Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- NLT Tie them on your fingers as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart.
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Quick answer
Bind this teaching to your fingers and write it on your heart. Let wisdom shape both your actions and your inmost being.
Overview
The son is to keep wisdom ever near his hands and inscribed upon his heart, recalling the Law's command to internalize God's word. The imagery joins outward practice with inward devotion. It anticipates the new covenant promise that God writes His law on His people's hearts.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Deut 11:18–20Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Prov 3:3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Deut 6:8–9Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Jer 31:33“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- 2 Cor 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
- Isa 30:8Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
- Prov 6:21Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
- Jer 17:1“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.
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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.
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