King James Version
Psalms 119:135 in the King James Version says “Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 119 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.”
Psalms 119:135 · KJV
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Make thy face”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“and teach”
H3925properly, to goad, i.e., (by implication) to teach (the rod being an middle eastern incentive)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“me thy statutes”
H2706an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
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