Let my tongue sing about Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness.
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.
- 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.
- 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 fleshly, sold under sin.
- Eph 4:29Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- Matt 12:34–35You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
- Ps 119:138You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
- Ps 119:86All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
- 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 119:13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
- Col 4:6Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
- Ps 119:46I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
- Ps 78:4We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
- Deut 6:7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise 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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