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Psalm 119:26

I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALETH
25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
26I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
27Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
28My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.
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The request for teaching comes after an answer from God, leaving the speaker heard and still in need of instruction.

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

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Psalm 25:5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.Both prayers ask God to teach, placing the speaker’s need for instruction before the God he trusts.
Psalm 86:11Teach me your way, LORD. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.Both ask God for teaching; Psalm 86 also expresses the resolve to walk in his truth.
Psalm 25:4Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths.Both address God as teacher, asking to learn the paths or statutes that belong to him.
Psalm 27:11Teach me your way, LORD. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.Both ask God to teach his way of life, with Psalm 27 naming enemies as the setting for that request.
Proverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.Both describe openness followed by a response, though Proverbs names confession and mercy where the psalm leaves the declared ways unspecified.
1 Kings 8:36then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain …Both connect God’s hearing with his teaching, asking him to instruct people in how they should live.
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Encouragement

An answer from God does not end the psalmist’s need to learn. Even after being heard, he asks God to teach him his statutes.

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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).