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, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."

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

then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh 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 wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.

and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

For I delight in God's law after the inward man,

Is pure

The words of Yahweh are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW

"Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

Enlightening

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

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

For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."

General references

What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

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