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

I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My heart.

I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

then there shall be a place which Jehovah your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there. There you shall 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 you vow to Jehovah.

And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your slave girl, and the Levite inside your gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, those among you, in the place which Jehovah your God has chosen to place His name there.

And all the people went to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words which were declared to them.

You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember You in Your ways. Behold, You were angry, for we sinned. In them is eternity, and we will be saved.

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and gladness of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah, the 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, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Behold, I have longed after Your Commandments; in Your righteousness give me life.

Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.

So indeed the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Enlightening

Look! Answer me, O Jehovah my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,

Through Your Commandments You make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life;

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and boast in God;

because by the works of the Law none of all flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law is the knowledge of sin.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be said! But I did not know sin except through the law. For also I did not know lust except the law said, You shall not lust.

For through the Law I died to the law, that I might live to God.

For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them."

General references

And who is a great nation whose statutes and judgments are so righteous as all this Law which I set before you today?

They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.