Psalms 119:124

Verse

Berean Standard Bible

Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.

American Standard Version (1901)

Deal with thy servant according unto thy lovingkindness, And teach me thy statutes.

Bible in Basic English

Be good to your servant in your mercy, and give me teaching in your rules.

Free Bible Version

Please treat me, your servant, according to your trustworthy love. Teach me what you want me to do.

Geneva Bible 1599

Deale with thy seruant according to thy mercie, and teache me thy statutes.

King James (Authorized) Version

Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

One Unity Resource Bible

Deal with your servant according to your cheshed ·loving-kindness·. Teach me your statutes.

Translation for Translators

Do something for me to show that you faithfully love me, and teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.

Unlocked Literal Bible

Show your servant your covenant faithfulness, and teach me your statutes.

Noah Webster Bible

Deal with thy servant according to thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.

World English Bible

Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.

Young's Literal Translation

Do with Thy servant according to Thy kindness. And Thy statutes teach Thou me.

Context

Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

¹²³My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise. ¹²⁴Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes. ¹²⁵I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies.

Summary

This verse expresses the psalmist's deep reverence and dependence on God's steadfast love and righteousness. It reflects a sense of humility and trust in God's faithfulness to deliver and protect His people. The psalmist acknowledges that true security and hope are found in God alone, especially in times of trouble and persecution. It serves as a reminder for believers to turn to God for strength and refuge in the face of adversity. Overall, the verse conveys a message of unwavering faith and reliance on God's unfailing goodness.

Commentary

John Gill
Matthew Henry

John Gill Bible Commentary

Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right,.... He had an impartial regard to all the commandments of God; and valued one as well as another, and walked according to all of them; making no difference either in his affection or practice between one and another, as being more or less necessary, just, and right: he had an equal respect to the lighter and weightier matters of the law; and, like Zacharias and Elisabeth, walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless; looking upon them all, with respect to everything commanded or forbidden by them, to be just and equitable; and I hate every false way; every command, institution, and ordinance of men, which are opposed to the will of God; every false way of worship, all superstition and idolatry; every false doctrine whatsoever is contrary to the testimonies and word of God: and indeed where there is a true love of the word, worship, and ordinances of God, there must be an hatred of these.

Matthew Henry Bible Commentary

Here is, 1. David's petition for divine instruction: "Teach me thy statutes; give me to know all my duty; when I am in doubt, and know not for certain what is my duty, direct me, and make it plain to me; now that I am afflicted, oppressed, and my eyes are ready to fail for thy salvation, let me know what my duty is in this condition." In difficult times we should desire more to be told what we must do than what we may expect, and should pray more to be led into the knowledge of scripture-precepts than of scripture-prophecies. If God, who gave us his statutes, do not teach us, we shall never learn them. How God teaches is implied in the next petition: Give me understanding (a renewed understanding, apt to receive divine light), that I may know thy testimonies. It is God's prerogative to give an understanding, that understanding without which we cannot know God's testimonies. Those who know most of God's testimonies desire to know more, and are still earnest with God to teach them, never thinking they know enough. 2. His pleas to enforce this petition. (1.) He pleads God's goodness to him: Deal with me according to thy mercy. The best saints count this their best plea for any blessing, "Let me have it according to thy mercy;" for we deserve no favour from God, nor can we claim any as a debt, but we are most likely to be easy when we cast ourselves upon God's mercy and refer ourselves to it. Particularly, when we come to him for instruction, we must beg it as a mercy, and reckon that in being taught we are well dealt with. (2.) He pleads his relation to God: "I am thy servant, and have work to do for thee; therefore teach me tod o it and to do it well." The servant has reason to expect that, if he be at a loss about his work, his master should teach him, and, if it were in his power, give him an understanding. "Lord," says David, "I desire to serve thee; show me how." If any man resolve to do God's will as his servant, he shall be made to know his testimonies, Joh 7:17; Psa 25:14.