I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
Parallel translations
- WEB I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
- BSB I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
- NKJV I have declared my ways, and You answered me; Teach me Your statutes.
- NASB I have told of my ways, and You have answered me; Teach me Your statutes.
- NLT I told you my plans, and you answered. Now teach me your decrees.
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Quick answer
The psalmist recounted his ways, God answered him, and he asks to be taught God's statutes. It matters because honest openness before God leads to instruction in His word.
Overview
The psalmist lays his life open before God, who responds, and then asks to be taught God's statutes further. Confession and teachability go together in his walk. This reflects the gospel posture of bringing our ways into God's light and submitting to be shaped by His word through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 86:11Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
- Ps 25:4Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
- Ps 27:11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
- Ps 32:5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
- Prov 28:13He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
- Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
- Ps 143:8–10Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
- Ps 38:18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
- Ps 119:12Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
- 1 Kgs 8:36Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
- Ps 119:106I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
- Ps 51:1–19Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
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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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