Psalm 119:144

Tsade

¹⁴³ Trouble and distress have overtaken me,
but Your commands are my delight.
¹⁴⁴ Your decrees are righteous forever.
Give me understanding, and I will live. ¹⁴⁵ ק QofI call with all my heart; answer me, Lord.
I will obey Your statutes.

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Righteous Decrees

Psalm 19:9

The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever;
the ordinances of the Lord are reliable
and altogether righteous.

Psalm 119:34

Help me understand Your instruction,
and I will obey it
and follow it with all my heart.

Psalm 119:66

Teach me good judgment and discernment,
for I rely on Your commands.

Psalm 119:73

י YodYour hands made me and formed me;
give me understanding
so that I can learn Your commands.

Psalm 119:138

The decrees You issue are righteous
and altogether trustworthy.

Psalm 119:152

Long ago I learned from Your decrees
that You have established them forever.

Psalm 119:169

ת TavLet my cry reach You, Lord;
give me understanding according to Your word.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many,
but fools die for lack of sense.

Isaiah 6:9-10

And He replied:

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;
keep looking, but do not perceive.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

Daniel 12:10

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; none of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.

Matthew 5:18

For I assure you: Until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or one stroke of a letter will pass from the law until all things are accomplished.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

John 17:3

This is eternal life:
that they may know You, the only true God,
and the One You have sent—Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:23-25

since you have been born again—not of perishable seed but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.

1 John 5:20-21

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true One. We are in the true One—that is, in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.