With my lips I have told of All the ordinances of Your mouth.
Parallel translations
- WEB With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
- KJV With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy 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.
- 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 will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
- Ps 40:9–10I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
- Ps 118:17I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works.
- Ps 34:11Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
- Ps 119:172Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
- Matt 12:34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Ps 119:46I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
- Acts 4:20for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
- Matt 10:27What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
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