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Psalm 119:135

Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.

133Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.
134Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.
135Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.
136Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don’t observe your law. TZADHE
137You are righteous, LORD. Your judgments are upright.
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The request for God’s shining face leads straight into a request for teaching, joining the desire for his favor with readiness to learn his commands.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Numbers 6:25The LORD make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you.Both passages ask for the Lord’s face to shine on someone, with Numbers naming grace and the psalm asking for teaching.
Psalm 67:1For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song. May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.Both prayers seek God’s shining face, one for his servant and the other for a people asking mercy and blessing.
Psalm 4:6Many say, “Who will show us any good?” LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.Both prayers ask for the light of God’s face, expressing a desire for his favor.
Psalm 80:7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.Both ask God to cause his face to shine, while Psalm 80 joins that request to a plea for salvation.
Psalm 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.God’s shining face is sought in both verses, with Psalm 80 asking that his people be turned back and saved.
Luke 24:45Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.Both passages concern receiving understanding: the psalm asks for teaching, and Luke describes minds opened to understand Scripture.
Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?The psalm asks God to teach his servant, and Job’s passage speaks of God as a teacher without equal.
Job 34:32Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?Both contain a request to be taught, acknowledging that the speaker needs instruction beyond what is already understood.
Job 33:26He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.Both passages connect prayer with God’s favor and his face, though Job describes joy where the psalm makes a request.
Revelation 22:4–5They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.God’s face is the shared thread: the psalm asks for it to shine, while Revelation says his servants will see it.
Job 35:11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’Both passages speak of God as the one who teaches, with the psalm asking to learn his statutes.
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Encouragement

There is room to ask for God’s favor while still needing his teaching. The servant who seeks his shining face also depends on him to learn his commands.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).