King James Version
Psalms 119:7 in the King James Version says “I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. thy: Heb. judgments of ...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 119 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. thy: Heb. judgments of thy righteousness”
Psalms 119:7 · KJV
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. thy: Heb. judgments of thy righteousness
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I will praise”
H3034physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the ha
“when I shall have learned”
H3925properly, to goad, i.e., (by implication) to teach (the rod being an middle eastern incentive)
“judgments”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
“thy righteous”
H6664the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
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