Psalm 119:144

Tsade

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Trouble and anguish have found me,
Yet Your commandments are my delight and my joy.
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Your righteous testimonies are everlasting;
Give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart] that I may live. ¹⁴⁵ Qoph.
I cried with all my heart; answer me, O Lord!
I will observe Your statutes.

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Righteous Decrees

Psalm 19:9

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true, they are righteous altogether.

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding [a teachable heart and the ability to learn], that I may keep Your law;
And observe it with all my heart.

Psalm 119:66

Teach me good judgment (discernment) and knowledge,
For I have believed and trusted and relied on Your commandments.

Psalm 119:73

Yodh.
Your hands have made me and established me;
Give me understanding and a teachable heart, that I may learn Your commandments.

Psalm 119:138

You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness
And in great faithfulness.

Psalm 119:152

Of old I have known from Your testimonies
That You have founded them forever.

Psalm 119:169

Tav.
Let my [mournful] cry come before You, O Lord;
Give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart] according to Your word [of promise].

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed and guide many,
But fools [who reject God and His wisdom] die for lack of understanding.

Isaiah 6:9-10

And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on listening, but do not understand;
Keep on looking, but do not comprehend.’

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches are dry, they are broken off;
The women come and make a fire with them.
For they are not a people of understanding,
Therefore He who made them will not have compassion on them,
And He who created them will not be gracious to them.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are stupid and foolish,” [says the Lord to Jeremiah];
“They do not know Me;
They are foolish children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd [enough] to do evil,
But they do not know [how] to do good.”

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purged, purified (made white) and refined, but the wicked will behave wickedly. None of the wicked shall understand, but those who are [spiritually] wise will understand.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge [of My law, where I reveal My will].
Because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge,
I will also reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your children.

Matthew 5:18

For I assure you and most solemnly say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke [of the pen] will pass from the Law until all things [which it foreshadows] are accomplished.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom [regarding salvation] and does not understand and grasp it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true [supreme and sovereign] God, and [in the same manner know] Jesus [as the] Christ whom You have sent.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the glory and majesty of God [clearly revealed] in the face of Christ.

1 Peter 1:23-25

for you have been born again [that is, reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose] not of seed which is perishable but [from that which is] imperishable and immortal, that is, through the living and everlasting word of God.

1 John 5:20-21

And we [have seen and] know [by personal experience] that the Son of God has [actually] come [to this world], and has given us understanding and insight so that we may [progressively and personally] know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.