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Psalm 119:27

Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

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.
29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
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The word “Then” links understanding God’s precepts with meditating on his wondrous works, giving the desire to learn a direction beyond gaining knowledge.

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

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Psalm 25:4Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths.Both prayers ask God to teach, looking to him for knowledge of his ways and precepts.
Psalm 105:2Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works.God’s wondrous works are the subject of meditation in Psalm 119 and praise shared with others in Psalm 105.
Psalm 145:5–6I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor, on your wondrous works.Both verses express a resolve to meditate on God’s wondrous works.
Ephesians 5:17Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.Both texts value understanding what God directs, expressed as his precepts in the psalm and his will in Ephesians.
Psalm 119:7I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.Both verses connect learning God’s instruction with a response to him: meditation here and thanks in verse 7.
Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.Both value learning, though Proverbs addresses receiving correction while the psalm asks God for understanding.
Revelation 15:3They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and …Both passages describe God’s works with wonder, making them the subject of meditation or song.
Acts 2:11Cretans and Arabians—we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!”Both passages concern God’s works, which the psalmist intends to ponder and the speakers in Acts proclaim.
Daniel 9:13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of the LORD our God, that we should turn from our …Both concern seeking understanding from God, though Daniel confesses a failure to seek him and discern his truth.
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, though Genesis does not name what Isaac meditates on, while the psalm names God’s wondrous works.
Exodus 13:14–15It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, …Both direct attention to God’s deeds; Exodus names deliverance from Egypt, while the psalm leaves the wondrous works unspecified.
1 Chronicles 28:8Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the LORD’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, …Both express concern for knowing God’s commands, through a prayer for understanding and a charge to seek them out.
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You need no pretense of understanding to pray these words. Even amid the sorrow of the surrounding verses, the writer asks God to teach him; God’s works remain wondrous.

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