Psalm 119:73 {118:73}
Good News Translation
You created me, and you keep me safe; give me understanding, so that I may learn your laws.

New Revised Standard Version
Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

Contemporary English Version
You created me and put me together. Make me wise enough to learn what you have commanded.

New American Bible
Your hands made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn your commandments.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

thy hands

Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

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.

Psalm 138:8 The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

Psalm 139:14-16 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well. . . .

Job 10:8-11 Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden? . . .

give me

Psalm 119:34,125,144,169 Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart. . . .

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.

2 Chronicles 2:12 And he added, saying: Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who hath given to king David a wise and knowing son, endued with understanding and prudence, to build a house to the Lord, and a palace for himself.

Job 32:8 But, as I see, there is a spirit in men, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding.

2 Timothy 2:7 Understand what I say: for the Lord will give thee in all things understanding.

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

that I may

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.

James 3:18 And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
72The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver. 73Thy hands have made me and formed me: give me understanding, and I will learn thy commandments.74They that fear thee shall see me, and shall be glad : because I have greatly hoped in thy words.…
Cross References
Job 10:8
Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me wholly round about, and dost thou thus cast me down headlong on a sudden?

Job 31:15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?

Psalm 33:15
He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who understandeth all their works.

Psalm 100:3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will search thy law; and I will keep it with my whole heart.

Psalm 138:8
The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works of thy hands.

Psalm 139:13
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb.

Psalm 139:15
My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.

Psalm 139:16
Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

Psalm 119:72
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