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Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
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My Maker, My Teacher
The psalmist bases his prayer on a powerful truth: the one who created him is the one best equipped to teach him. Commentators explain this as an appeal for God to complete His work. Having formed our bodies, we ask Him to form our spirits, trusting that our Creator will provide the wisdom needed to live for Him.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Your hands have made me – This commences a new division of the psalm, in which each verse begins with the Hebrew letter Jod (י<…
19th Century
Anglican
JOD.
Fashioned. —Literally, fixed, established.
Baptist
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
This is a very instructive praye…
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16th Century
Protestant
Your hands have made and fashioned me. The prophet's declaration that he had been created by the hand of God greatly contributed to inspir…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(y) , JOD.--The Tenth Part .
Psalms 119:73
God made us to serve him and enjoy him; but by sin, we have made ourselves unfit to serve him and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to…
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