Psalm 119:7-8

- #Bible#Psalm 119

Scripture

Source Scripture

I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.
I will keep your statutes; do not utterly forsake me!

  • Psalm 119:7-8 ESV

I will give thanks to You with an upright heart, When I learn [through discipline] Your righteous judgments [for my transgressions].
I shall keep Your statutes; Do not utterly abandon me [when I fail].

  • Psalm 119:7-8 (Amplified)

As I learn your righteous judgments, I will praise you with a pure heart.
I will obey your laws; never abandon me!

  • Psalm 119:7-8 (GNT)

Cross-references

I will praise you with an upright heart

I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever. For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

  • Psalm 86:12-13 ESV

And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding. O LORD our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own. I know, my God, that you test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. In the uprightness of my heart I have freely offered all these things, and now I have seen your people, who are present here, offering freely and joyously to you.

  • 1 Chronicles 29:13-17 ESV

when I learn your righteous rules

Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. ... Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

  • Psalm 25:4-5, 8-10 ESV

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

  • Psalm 143:10 ESV

"Rules / Judgements" (mishpat): From shaphat; properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style -- + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.

I will keep your statues

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

  • Joshua 24:15 ESV

“Statutes” (choq): According to Vine’s Expository Dictionary, this word means “statute, prescription, rule, law, regulation” and can refer to laws of nature (Job 28:26; Jeremiah 5:22; 31:35–36) or what is allocated, rationed, or apportioned to someone (Genesis 47:22; Exodus 29:28).

When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure, when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.

  • Job 28:25-27 ESV

do not utterly forsake me

Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me! Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!

  • Psalm 38:21-22 ESV

Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

  • Psalm 51:11 ESV

Observation

  • Rules here are God's rulings / judgements
  • The result of having learned God's righteous rules is an upright heart
  • When we have an upright heart, we praise God for his work in our lives
  • Commandments are general rules that God has given in his word. However, statues are decrees that he has given to individuals
  • The psalmist is asking God not for forsake him by withholding the Holy Spirit

Application

  • These two verses are about seeing how God is working. He is passing down rulings to individuals and he is decreeing things to individuals
  • When God brings conviction, we need to accept that (instead of arguing with God) and repent. As we continue doing this, we will be able to praise him with an upright heart
  • We need to listen to God and hear what God is instructing us to do. If we follow His instructions, he will never be far from us.
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