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Psa. 19:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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statutes.

Psa. 105:45• ⁴⁵That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord. (Psa. 105:45)

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Psa. 119:12,16,80,171• ¹²Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.
¹⁶I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
⁸⁰Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
¹⁷¹My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes. (Psa. 119:12,16,80,171)

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Gen. 26:5• ⁵Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. (Gen. 26:5)

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Ex. 18:16• ¹⁶When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws. (Ex. 18:16)

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Deut. 4:5‑6• ⁵Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
⁶Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. (Deut. 4:5‑6)

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Ezek. 36:27• ²⁷And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (Ezek. 36:27)

right.

Psa. 119:128• ¹²⁸Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way. (Psa. 119:128)

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Neh. 9:13• ¹³Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: (Neh. 9:13)

rejoicing.

Psa. 40:8• ⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. (Psa. 40:8)

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Psa. 119:14,24,54,92,121,143• ¹⁴I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
²⁴Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
⁵⁴Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
⁹²Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
¹²¹AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
¹⁴³Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights. (Psa. 119:14,24,54,92,121,143)

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Deut. 12:11‑12• ¹¹Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:
¹²And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you. (Deut. 12:11‑12)

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Deut. 16:11,14• ¹¹And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
¹⁴And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. (Deut. 16:11,14)

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Neh. 8:12• ¹²And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them. (Neh. 8:12)

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Isa. 64:5• ⁵Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved. (Isa. 64:5)

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Jer. 15:16• ¹⁶Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. (Jer. 15:16)

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Rom. 7:22• ²²For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: (Rom. 7:22)

is pure.

Psa. 12:6• ⁶The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. (Psa. 12:6)

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Psa. 119:40• ⁴⁰Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness. (Psa. 119:40)

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Prov. 30:5• ⁵Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (Prov. 30:5)

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Rom. 7:12‑14• ¹²Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
¹³Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. (Rom. 7:12‑14)

enlightening.

Psa. 13:3• ³Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; (Psa. 13:3)

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Psa. 119:98‑100,105,130• ⁹⁸Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
¹⁰⁰I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
¹⁰⁵NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
¹³⁰The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. (Psa. 119:98‑100,105,130)

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Prov. 2:6• ⁶For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. (Prov. 2:6)

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Prov. 6:23• ²³For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: (Prov. 6:23)

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Rom. 2:17‑20• ¹⁷Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
¹⁸And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
¹⁹And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
²⁰An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law. (Rom. 2:17‑20)

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Rom. 3:20• ²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:20)

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Rom. 7:7• ⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. (Rom. 7:7)

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Gal. 2:19• ¹⁹For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. (Gal. 2:19)

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Gal. 3:10‑13,21• ¹⁰For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
¹¹But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
¹²And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
¹³Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
²¹Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (Gal. 3:10‑13,21)

• It is pure and enlightens the eyes, gives to see clear where we were obscure in heart and spirituality. But the psalm connects this with the state of the heart. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 18-21” by J.N. Darby)

• There is a reference, not merely to the law, but to the Lord Himself—the effect of the sense of God's presence in the conscience—the fear of the Lord—the introduction of God into everything, and the reference of the heart to Him, and the judgment which he has of everything. This is clean; no spot can remain there, and it is an eternal principle, for it depends on the nature of God Himself. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 18-21” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes;