Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
Parallel translations
- WEB Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
- KJV Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
- NKJV Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it.
- NASB Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it.
- NLT Make me walk along the path of your commands, for that is where my happiness is found.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks God to lead him in the path of His commandments, in which he delights. It matters because God's guidance and the believer's delight in His ways go hand in hand.
Overview
The psalmist prays to be made to walk in the path of God's commandments, the path he genuinely loves. He asks God to direct steps that his heart already desires. Such delight in God's way is the fruit of grace, fully realized in Christ, who walked the path of obedience and leads His people in it.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Ezek 36:26–27I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
- Ps 23:3He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name.
- Ps 25:4Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.
- Prov 4:11I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
- Phil 2:13For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.
- 1 Jn 5:3For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,
- Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice,
- Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Ps 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- Ps 119:27Make clear to me the way of Your precepts; then I will meditate on Your wonders.
- Rom 7:22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- Isa 48:17Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.
- Prov 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Ps 119:36Turn my heart to Your testimonies and not to covetous gain.
- Isa 2:3And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- Ps 119:173May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
- Prov 3:17All her ways are pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.
- Isa 58:13–14If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
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