Psalm 119:18

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Summary

Psalm 119:18

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Open

Wondrous

Hebrews 10:1

General references

Proverbs 20:12

Luke 24:45

Bible References

Open

For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep,
He has shut your eyes, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, the seers.

Then the eyes of those who see will not be blinded,
And the ears of those who hear will listen.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.

And Jesus said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.”

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’

But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ.

in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.

I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

Wondrous

I have seen a limit to all perfection;
Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.

and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, “See,” He says, “that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.”

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

General references

The hearing ear and the seeing eye,
The Lord has made both of them.

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,