Psalm 19:8

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Summary

Psalm 19:8

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

Rejoicing

Is pure

Enlightening

General references

Deuteronomy 4:8

Proverbs 8:9

Bible References

Rejoicing

To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all wealth.

then there shall be a place which Jehovah your God will choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye shall vow to Jehovah.

and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow that are in thy midst in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.

And all the people went their way, to eat and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great rejoicing. For they had understood the words that were declared to them.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.

Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy words were unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man:

Is pure

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Every word of +God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

Enlightening

Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.

For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

But if thou art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust;

For I, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God.

For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;

General references

And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances, as all this law which I set before you this day?

They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.