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Psalm 119:15

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
14I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
15I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
17Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.
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Notice

“Meditate” and “consider” describe a chosen use of attention, with God’s precepts and ways as the things worth returning to in thought.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written …Both name meditation on God’s instruction; Joshua connects that meditation with doing what the law says.
James 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.Both describe attention to God’s instruction; James adds the contrast between a forgetful hearer and someone who acts.
Psalm 1:2but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.Both name meditation on God’s instruction, with Psalm 1 describing it as a day-and-night practice rooted in delight.
Psalm 119:148My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.Both express a resolve to meditate on God’s word; verse 148 locates that attention in the night watches.
Psalm 119:48I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYINBoth commit to meditation on God’s commands; verse 48 also expresses love through hands reaching toward them.
Psalm 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.Both make God’s instruction the subject of meditation; verse 97 connects that practice with love for his law.
Genesis 24:63Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.Both mention meditation in the supplied wording, though Genesis does not say what Isaac was meditating on.
1 Timothy 4:15Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.The shared thread is focused commitment; Timothy’s charge does not name meditation on God’s precepts.
Proverbs 12:5The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.Both concern the life of thought: the psalm names its focus, while Proverbs describes the thoughts of the righteous.
One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 119:15 at breakfast; pause over each verb

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Encouragement

There is no demand here to finish a certain amount of reading. The commitment is to attend to what God has said and consider his ways.

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