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Psalm 119:64

The earth is full of your loving kindness, LORD. Teach me your statutes. TETH

62At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.
63I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.
64The earth is full of your loving kindness, LORD. Teach me your statutes. TETH
65You have treated your servant well, according to your word, LORD.
66Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
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An earth full of God's loving kindness leads into a request for teaching, linking the sight of his goodness with a learner's need.

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Where else Scripture says this

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Psalm 33:5Both verses declare that the earth is full of the LORD's loving kindness.
Psalm 119:12Blessed are you, LORD. Teach me your statutes.Both verses address the LORD with the same request: “Teach me your statutes.”
Psalm 5:8Lead me, LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.Both prayers seek the LORD's direction, one asking for teaching in his statutes, the other for guidance in his righteousness.
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.Learning is the shared thread: the psalm asks the LORD for teaching, and Jesus tells his hearers to learn from him.
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 praise, through thanks for his judgments or acknowledgment of his loving kindness.
Isaiah 48:17–18The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.The psalm asks the LORD to teach; Isaiah records the LORD describing himself as the God who teaches and leads.
Isaiah 2:3Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will …Both passages express a desire for God's teaching, naming his statutes in the psalm and his ways in Isaiah.
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Read Psalm 119:62–66 and write its requests for teaching

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Encouragement

You need not know all God's statutes before asking him to teach you. The prayer is addressed to YHWH whose loving kindness fills the earth.

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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).