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Your righteousnessצִדְקָתְךָis righteousnessצֶדֶקforever,לְעוֹלָםand your instructionוְתוֹרָתְךָis truth.אֱמֶת
Psalms 119:142
Study it in the app“Your righteousness is righteousness forever, and your instruction is truth.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 119:142, word by word
- Your righteousnessצִדְקָתְtsidkat
righteous deeds
Doing what is just, upright deeds.
Where else “tsidkat” appears- is righteousnessצֶדֶקtsedek
righteousness
Living uprightly before God.
Where else “tsedek” appears- foreverעוֹלָםolam
forever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appears- and your instructionתוֹרָתְtorat
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “torat” appears- is truthאֱמֶתemet
truth
What corresponds to the facts, what is so and not otherwise.
Where else “emet” appears
The context
141Small I am and despised; your precepts I have not forgotten.
142 · This verse (above)
143Distress and straits have found me; your commandments are my delight.