I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
- KJV I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
- NKJV I will meditate on Your precepts, And contemplate Your ways.
- NASB I will meditate on Your precepts And regard Your ways.
- NLT I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways.
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Quick answer
The psalmist commits to meditate on God's precepts and fix his attention on His ways. It matters because thoughtful reflection on Scripture is essential to a godly life.
Overview
Meditation here is deliberate, prayerful pondering of God's precepts and ways rather than passing thought. Such sustained attention shapes the mind and conduct. This devotion to God's word mirrors the believer's call to set the mind on the things of Christ and be transformed by renewed thinking.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Jas 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
- Ps 1:2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
- Ps 119:148My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.
- Ps 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
- Ps 119:48I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
- Ps 119:78May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
- Ps 119:117Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes.
- Ps 119:131I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.
- Ps 119:6Then I would not be ashamed when I consider all Your commandments.
- Ps 119:23Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
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