Psalm 119:138

Lutherbibel

Du hast die Zeugnisse deiner Gerechtigkeit und die Wahrheit hart geboten.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Du hast deine Zeugnisse gerecht und sehr treu abgefaßt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

testimonies: Psalms 119:86, Psalms 119:144, Psalms 19:7-9, Deuteronomy 4:8, Deuteronomy 4:45

righteous: Heb. righteousness

faithful: Heb. faithfulness, Psalms 119:75

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:3 - testimonies Psalms 19:9 - judgments Psalms 93:5 - Thy Psalms 119:151 - all Psalms 119:160 - Thy word is true from the beginning Psalms 119:172 - for all thy Isaiah 45:19 - speak righteousness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded [are] righteous,.... The Scriptures are holy, just, and good; and what is contained in them are according to godliness; are for instruction in righteousness, and teach men to live soberly, righteously, and godly;

and very faithful; or "true" u: all the sayings in them are true and faithful sayings; for they are the sayings of God that cannot lie; the promises in them are faithfully performed by him that made them; they are all yea and amen in Christ. The words may be rendered, "thou hast commanded righteousness [in] thy testimonies, and truth" or faith "exceedingly": so the Arabic version. God in the law requires of men a perfect righteousness, every way agreeable to its demands; and in his Gospel he reveals the complete righteousness of his Son, which he has commanded to be published in it, to be laid hold on and received by faith as a justifying righteousness, as it is to all that believe: this, with every other truth of the Gospel, is made manifest by the Scriptures according to the commandment of the everlasting God,

Romans 16:25.

u ואמונה מאד "et verissimae", Vatablus, "veritas valde, i.e. prorsus verissima", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded - Thy law, considered as a testimony as to what is right and best.

Are righteous and very faithful - Margin, as in Hebrew, “righteousness and faithfulness.” They are “so” righteous, and so deserving of confidence - so certain to be accomplished, and so worthy to be trusted in - that they may be spoken of as “righteousness” and “fidelity” of the most perfect kind; the very essence of that which is right.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:138. Thy testimonies — Every thing that proceeds from thee partakes of the perfections of thy nature.