My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
- BSB My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.
- 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 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
- Eph 4:29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
- Matt 12:34–35O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Rom 7:12Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
- Ps 119:142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
- Ps 119:138Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.
- Ps 119:86All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
- Ps 40:9–10I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
- Ps 119:13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
- Col 4:6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
- Ps 119:46I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
- Ps 78:4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
- Deut 6:7And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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