Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
- KJV Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
- NKJV Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore my soul keeps them.
- NASB ¶Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore my soul complies with them.
- NLT Your laws are wonderful. No wonder I obey them!
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Quick answer
God's testimonies are wonderful, so his soul keeps them. Their marvelous worth compels obedience.
Overview
Opening the PEY stanza, the psalmist declares God's testimonies wonderful, full of marvel and worth, and therefore guards them with his whole soul. Obedience flows from awe at the excellence of the word. This wonder at God's revelation deepens as it culminates in Christ, in whom the mysteries of God are unveiled (Col. 1:26-27; 1 Pet. 1:12).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
- Ps 139:6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
- Ps 119:18Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
- Isa 25:1O LORD, You are my God! I will exalt You; I will praise Your name. For You have worked wonders—plans formed long ago—in perfect faithfulness.
- Ps 119:31I cling to Your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame.
- Ps 119:2Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
- Ps 119:146I call to You; save me, that I may keep Your testimonies.
- Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Rev 19:10So I fell at his feet to worship him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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