Psalm 119:34 {118:34}
Good News Translation
Explain your law to me, and I will obey it; I will keep it with all my heart.

New Revised Standard Version
Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.

Contemporary English Version
Help me to understand your Law; I promise to obey it with all my heart.

New American Bible
Give me understanding to keep your law, to observe it with all my heart.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.

give me

Psalm 119:73 Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Proverbs 2:5,6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge. . . .

John 7:17 If any man will do the will of him, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.

James 1:5 But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.

James 3:13-18 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. . . .

I shall

Deuteronomy 4:6 And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.

Matthew 5:19 He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 7:24 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

James 1:25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 2:8-12 If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well. . . .

James 4:11 Detract not one another, my brethren. He that detracteth his brother, or he that judgeth his brother, detracteth the law and judgeth the law. But if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

observe

Psalm 119:10,58,69 With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
33Set before me for a law the way of thy justifications, O Lord: and I will always seek after it. 34Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.35Lead me into the path of thy commandments; for this same I have desired.…
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12
The Lord also give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou mayest be able to rule Israel, and to keep the law of the Lord thy God.

Psalm 119:2
Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.

Psalm 119:27
Make me to understand the way of thy justifications: and I shall be exercised in thy wondrous works.

Psalm 119:69
The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.

Psalm 119:73
Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

Ezekiel 44:24
And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances in all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths.

Psalm 119:33
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