Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.
- KJV And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
- NKJV And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, For I have hoped in Your ordinances.
- NASB And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, For I wait for Your judgments.
- NLT Do not snatch your word of truth from me, for your regulations are my only hope.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks that the word of truth not be taken from his mouth, for he hopes in God's judgments. It matters because faithful witness depends on continually holding God's truth.
Overview
The psalmist prays that he may never be left unable to speak God's truth, resting his hope in God's ordinances. He longs to keep confessing the word with confidence. This dependence on God to sustain a truthful witness is fulfilled in the gospel, where the Spirit emboldens believers to speak the word of truth about Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 9:4For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
- 1 Pet 2:23When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
- Eph 1:13And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
- Ps 119:175Let me live to praise You; may Your judgments sustain me.
- Ps 71:17–18O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Ps 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
- Ps 119:52I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.
- Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
- Ps 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
- Ps 7:6–9Arise, O LORD, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.
- Isa 59:21“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
- Ps 51:14–15Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.
- Ps 9:16The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah
- Ps 119:120My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
- Ps 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
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