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Psalm 119

Psa. 119:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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κOpen
galah (Hebrew #1540)
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
KJV usage: + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X surely, tell, uncover.
Pronounce: gaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
thou mine eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
, that I may behold
nabat (Hebrew #5027)
to scan, i.e. look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
KJV usage: (cause to) behold, consider, look (down), regard, have respect, see.
Pronounce: naw-bat'
Origin: a primitive root
wondrous things
pala' (Hebrew #6381)
properly, perhaps to separate, i.e. distinguish (literally or figuratively); by implication, to be (causatively, make) great, difficult, wonderful
KJV usage: accomplish, (arise...too, be too) hard, hidden, things too high, (be, do, do a, shew) marvelous(-ly, -els, things, work), miracles, perform, separate, make singular, (be, great, make) wonderful(-ers, -ly, things, works), wondrous (things, works, -ly).
Pronounce: paw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
out of thy law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
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Reveal.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Open.
Heb. Reveal.
Isa. 29:10‑12,18• 10For Jehovah hath poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers, hath he covered.
 11And all the vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which they deliver to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed.
 12And the book is delivered to him that cannot read, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot read.
 18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and out of obscurity and out of darkness the eyes of the blind shall see; (Isa. 29:10‑12,18)
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Isa. 32:3• 3And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. (Isa. 32:3)
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Isa. 35:5• 5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf be unstopped. (Isa. 35:5)
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Matt. 13:13• 13For this cause I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear nor understand; (Matt. 13:13)
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Matt. 16:17• 17And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed [it] to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens. (Matt. 16:17)
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John 9:39• 39And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, that they that see not may see, and they that see may become blind. (John 9:39)
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Acts 26:18• 18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness unto light and the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among those that are sanctified by faith that is in me. (Acts 26:18)
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2 Cor. 3:14‑18• 14But their thoughts were darkened; for until this very day the same veil at the reading of the old covenant abideth unlifted, which in Christ is done away.
 15But unto this day, when Moses is being read, a veil lieth upon their heart.
 16But whenever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken off.)
 17Now the Lord is the spirit, but where the Spirit of the Lord [is, there is] liberty;
 18but we all, beholding the glory of the Lord with unveiled face, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from [the] Lord [the] Spirit. (2 Cor. 3:14‑18)
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2 Cor. 4:4‑6• 4in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the faithless, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth.
 5For not ourselves do we preach, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake,
 6because it is the God that bade light shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts for the illumination of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. 4:4‑6)
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Eph. 1:17‑18• 17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you [the] spirit of wisdom and revelation in full knowledge of him,
 18having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling; and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints; (Eph. 1:17‑18)
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Rev. 3:18• 18I counsel thee to buy of me gold purified by fire that thou mayest wax rich, and white garments that thou mayest be clothed and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifested; and eye-salve to anoint thine eyes that thou mayest see. (Rev. 3:18)
wondrous.
Psa. 119:96• 96To all perfection I have seen an end:{HR}Exceeding broad [is] thy commandment. (Psa. 119:96)
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Hos. 8:12• 12I have written to him the great things of my law: they were counted as a strange thing. (Hos. 8:12)
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2 Cor. 3:13• 13and not as Moses used to put a veil on his own face, that the sons of Israel should not look stedfastly unto the end of that to be done away. (2 Cor. 3:13)
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Heb. 8:5• 5being such as serve for example and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle, for, See, saith he, thou shalt make all things according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mountain. (Heb. 8:5)
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Heb. 10:1• 1For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never by the same sacrifices, which they offer yearly continuously, perfect those that approach. (Heb. 10:1)
• The soul thus knowing God desires the knowledge of His mind, not merely a rule to direct, but “wondrous things out of God's law.” (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:1-24” by J.N. Darby)
• The natural man can do this much; only the servant with the opened eyes will behold “wondrous things.” (“Psalm 119:17-24: Division 3 (Gimel)” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Open mine eyes, and I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law.

W. Kelly Translation

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Open mine eyes,{HR}And I shall behold wondrous things out of thy law.