The earth is filled with Your loving devotion, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
Parallel translations
- WEB The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes. TET
- KJV The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.
- NKJV The earth, O Lord, is full of Your mercy; Teach me Your statutes. ט Teth
- NASB The earth is full of Your goodness, Lord; Teach me Your statutes. Teth
- NLT O Lord, your unfailing love fills the earth; teach me your decrees. Teth
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Quick answer
The earth is full of God's steadfast love, and the psalmist asks to be taught His statutes. It matters because God's pervasive mercy moves the believer to seek deeper knowledge of His word.
Overview
Closing the Cheth stanza, the psalmist sees the earth filled with God's covenant love and responds by asking to learn His statutes. Awareness of God's goodness fuels a hunger for His word. This grace that fills the earth finds its highest expression in the gospel, where God's love is revealed in the gift of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 33:5The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of His loving devotion.
- Matt 11:29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- Ps 119:12Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.
- Ps 119:26I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
- Isa 48:17–18Thus 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.
- Ps 145:9The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
- Ps 27:11Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.
- Ps 104:13He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
- 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.
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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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