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I will give you thanksאוֹדְךָwith uprightnessבְּיֹשֶׁרof heartלֵבָבwhen I learnבְּלָמְדִיyour righteousצִדְקֶךָrules.מִשְׁפְּטֵי
Psalms 119:7
Study it in the app“I will give you thanks with uprightness of heart when I learn your righteous rules.”
Happy are those who walk in YHWH's instruction; the psalmist asks to keep his statutesObedience
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 119:7, word by word
- I will give you thanksאוֹדְod
give thanks
To thank YHWH and praise him aloud for what he did.
Where else “od” appears- with uprightnessיֹשֶׁרyosher
uprightness
Uprightness: what is straight and right.
Where else “yosher” appears- of heartלֵבָבlevav
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levav” appears- when I learnלָמְדִlamdi
learn
To receive teaching until one knows or masters it.
Where else “lamdi” appears- your righteousצִדְקֶtsidke
judge justly
To govern and judge with justice.
Where else “tsidke” appears- rulesמִשְׁפְּטֵיmishpte
rule
Each of the rules the law gives for concrete cases of life.
Where else “mishpte” appears
The context
6Then I will not be ashamed when I look to all your commandments.
7 · This verse (above)
8Your statutes I will keep; do not abandon me utterly.