My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
- KJV My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
- NKJV My tongue shall speak of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.
- NASB Let my tongue sing about Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.
- NLT Let my tongue sing about your word, for all your commands are right.
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Quick answer
He longs for his tongue to sing of God's word, for all God's commandments are righteous. God's righteous Word is worthy of joyful song.
Overview
The psalmist wants his speech to become a song celebrating God's Word, grounded in the conviction that 'all your commandments are righteousness.' Confidence in the rightness of God's commands fuels worship. The righteousness of God's Word ultimately points to Christ, the righteous one in whom God's law is perfectly fulfilled.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Rom 7:14We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
- Eph 4:29Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
- Matt 12:34–35You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Rom 7:12So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous, and good.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
- Ps 119:138The testimonies You have laid down are righteous and altogether faithful.
- Ps 119:86All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!
- Ps 40:9–10I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
- Ps 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
- Col 4:6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- Ps 119:46I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed.
- Ps 78:4We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
- Deut 6:7And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
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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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