Psalms 119:144 · KJV
“The righteousness of thy testimonies {is} everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.”
— Psalms 119:144
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: {yet} thy commandments {are} my delights. {taken...: Heb. found me}
KOPH. I cried with {my} whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
Psalms 119 — Context
Thy righteousness {is} an everlasting righteousness, and thy law {is} the truth.
143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: {yet} thy commandments {are} my delights. {taken...: Heb. found me}
144The righteousness of thy testimonies {is} everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
145KOPH. I cried with {my} whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
146I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies. {and I...: or, that I may keep}
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people {is} foolish, they have not known me; they {are} sottish children, and they have none understanding: they {are} wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
1 Peter 1:23-25
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Psalms 119:169
TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.
2 Corinthians 4:6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to {give} the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. {hath: Gr. is he who hath}
Daniel 12:10
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, {and} set them on fire: for it {is} a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
1 John 5:20-21
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, {even} in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. {of wisdom: Heb. of heart}