Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Parallel translations
- WEB Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
- BSB Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.
- NKJV Teach me good judgment and knowledge, For I believe Your commandments.
- NASB Teach me good discernment and knowledge, For I believe in Your commandments.
- NLT I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgment and knowledge.
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Quick answer
The psalmist asks to be taught good judgment and knowledge, for he believes God's commandments. It matters because sound discernment grows from trusting and learning God's word.
Overview
Trusting in God's commandments, the psalmist prays for good judgment and knowledge. Faith in the word becomes the soil in which true discernment grows. This dependence on God for wisdom points to Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge for those who believe.
Cross-references & the web
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- Phil 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
- Prov 2:1–9My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
- Jas 3:13–18Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
- 1 Kgs 3:9Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
- Matt 13:11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
- Isa 11:2–4And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
- Ps 119:128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Ps 119:160Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
- Ps 119:172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
- Neh 9:13–14Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
- Ps 72:1–2Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
- Prov 8:20I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
- 1 Kgs 3:28And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
- Judg 3:15But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
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