Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore my soul keeps them.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
- KJV Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
- BSB Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey 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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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 paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
- Ps 139:6This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
- Ps 119:18Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
- Isa 25:1Yahweh, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.
- Ps 119:31I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.
- Ps 119:2Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
- Ps 119:146I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
- Isa 9:6For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Rev 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold 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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