With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
Parallel translations
- WEB With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
- BSB With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
- NKJV With my lips I have declared All the judgments of Your mouth.
- NASB With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth.
- NLT I have recited aloud all the regulations you have given us.
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Quick answer
The psalmist openly declares all the ordinances God has spoken. It matters because a heart that loves God's word will speak and confess it to others.
Overview
Having received God's ordinances, the psalmist responds by recounting them aloud. Genuine reception of Scripture overflows into testimony. This anticipates the gospel call to confess God's word with the mouth, declaring the truth of Christ before others.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 71:15–18My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
- Ps 40:9–10I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
- Ps 118:17I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
- Ps 34:11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
- Ps 119:172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
- Matt 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Ps 119:46I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
- Acts 4:20For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
- Matt 10:27What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
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