Psalms 119:13

With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
lips	בִּשְׂפָתַ֥י bis.fa.Tai	H8193	the lip (as a natural boundary) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
declared	סִפַּ֑רְתִּי si.Par.ti	H5608	properly · verb, piel perfect, 1st person common singular
judgments	מִשְׁפְּטֵי mish.pe.tei-	H4941	properly · noun, common masculine plural construct
mouth	פִֽיךָ Fi.kha	H6310	the mouth (as the means of blowing) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 71:15-18 My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
Psalms 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalms 40:9-10 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Psalms 34:11 Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
Psalms 118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
Psalms 119:46 I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.
Psalms 119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:13-16

Here, I. David looks back with comfort upon the respect he had paid to the word of God. He had the testimony of his conscience for him, 1. That he had edified others with what he had been taught out of the word of God (Psa 119:13): With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. This he did, not only as a king in making orders, and giving judgment, according to the word of God, nor only as a prophet by his psalms, but in his common discourse. Thus he showed how full he was of the word of God, and what a holy delight he took in his acquaintance with it; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. Thus he did good with his knowledge; he did not hide God's wo…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:13

With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. Not the judgments of his hand, what he executes on an ungodly world; nor the intricate dispensations of his providence; those judgments of his now unsearchable, though before long will be manifest; these the psalmist could not declare: but the revelation of the will of God, what his mouth has uttered, doctrines and precepts of righteousness and truth; these, though David had them in his heart, he did not conceal them from men; but out of the abundant experience he had of them in his heart, his lips spake of them, of their nature and excellency, and usefulness unto others: and whereas he desired to be instructed more and more in the…

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John Calvin on Psalms 119:9-16

Psalm 119:9-16 v 9. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to thy word. v 10. I have sought thee with my whole heart; do not permit me to wander from thy commandments. v 11. I have hid thy word in my heart, [401] that I might not sin against thee. v 12. Blessed art thou, O Jehovah! teach me thy statutes. v 13. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. v 14. I have taken pleasure in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. v 15. I will meditate upon thy precepts, and will take heed to thy paths. v 16. I will delight, myself in thy statutes; I will not forget thy words. 9. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? In this plac…

The Church Fathers

"With my lips have I been telling of all the judgments of Your mouth" [Psalm 119:13]; that is, I have kept silent nothing of Your judgments, which Thou willed should become known to me through Your words, but I have been telling of all of them without exception with my lips. This he seems to me to signify, since he says not, all Your judgments, but, "all the judgments of Your mouth;" that is, which You have revealed unto me: that by His mouth we may understand His word, which He has discovered unto us in many revelations of the Saints, and in the two Testaments; all which judgments the Church ceases not to declare at all times with her lips.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 119

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Dictionary and topics

Judgments of God — (1.) The secret decisions of God’s will (Ps. 110:5; 36:6). (2.) The revelations of his will (Ex. 21:1; Deut. 6:20; Ps. 119:7-175). (3.) The infliction of punishment on the wicked (Ex. 6:6; 12:12;…
Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Scriptures, The · Saints: Pray to be taught — Saints: Pray to be taught
Speaking · WISDOM IN — WISDOM IN
Testimony · RELIGIOUS, EXEMPLIFIED — RELIGIOUS, EXEMPLIFIED

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 119:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:13-16

John Gill on Psalms 119:13

John Calvin on Psalms 119:9-16

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 119:13

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:13-16

John Gill on Psalms 119:13

John Calvin on Psalms 119:9-16

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:9-16

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:10