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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 keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah! (Psa. 105:45)

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

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Gen. 26:5• ⁵because that Abraham hearkened to 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 to me, and I judge between one and another; and I make known to them the statutes of God, and his laws. (Ex. 18:16)

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Deut. 4:5‑6• ⁵See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye may do so in the land into which ye enter to possess it.
⁶And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily 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 keep mine ordinances, and ye shall do them. (Ezek. 36:27)

right.

Psa. 119:128• ¹²⁸Therefore I regard all thy precepts concerning all things to be right: I hate every false path. (Psa. 119:128)

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Neh. 9:13• ¹³And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments. (Neh. 9:13)

rejoicing.

Psa. 40:8• ⁸To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and 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 wealth.
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 delight, 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 upon me: 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 Jehovah your God will 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 shall vow to Jehovah.
¹²And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your bondmen, and your handmaids, and the Levite that is within your gates; for he hath no portion nor inheritance with you. (Deut. 12:11‑12)

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Deut. 16:11,14• ¹¹and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow that are in thy midst in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.
¹⁴And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in 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 rejoicing. For they had understood the words that were declared to them. (Neh. 8:12)

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Isa. 64:5• ⁵Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, 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 words were unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts. (Jer. 15:16)

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

is pure.

Psa. 12:6• ⁶The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the 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• ¹²So that the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
¹³Did then that which is good become death to me? Far be the thought. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death to me by that which is good; in order that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
¹⁴For we know that the law is spiritual: but *I* am fleshly, sold under sin. (Rom. 7:12‑14)

enlightening.

Psa. 13:3• ³Consider, answer me, O Jehovah 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• ⁹⁸Thy commandments make 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 aged, because I have observed thy precepts.
¹⁰⁵NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
¹³⁰The entrance of thy words giveth light, giving understanding unto the simple. (Psa. 119:98‑100,105,130)

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Prov. 2:6• ⁶For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding. (Prov. 2:6)

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

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Rom. 2:17‑20• ¹⁷But if *thou* art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,
¹⁸and knowest the will, and discerningly approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
¹⁹and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,
²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law: (Rom. 2:17‑20)

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Rom. 3:20• ²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:20)

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Rom. 7:7• ⁷What shall we say then? is the law sin? Far be the thought. But I had not known sin, unless by law: for I had not had conscience also of lust unless the law had said, Thou shalt not lust; (Rom. 7:7)

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Gal. 2:19• ¹⁹For *I*, through law, have died to law, that I may live to God. (Gal. 2:19)

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Gal. 3:10‑13,21• ¹⁰For as many as are on the principle of works of law are under curse. For it is written, Cursed is every one who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them;
¹¹but that by law no one is justified with God is evident, because The just shall live on the principle of faith;
¹²but the law is not on the principle of faith; but, He that shall have done these things shall live by them.
¹³Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one hanged upon a tree,)
²¹Is then the law against the promises of God? Far be the thought. For if a law had been given able to quicken, then indeed righteousness were on the principle of 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;