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Psalms 119:102
I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks in the first person within Psalm 119, declaring personal fidelity to divine law immediately after pledging to guard his steps from evil paths (Psalms 119:101).
The words — The Hebrew סָרְתִּי (sa·rtî), meaning "I have turned aside," and הוֹרֵֽתָֽנִי (ho·rê·tā·nî), meaning "you have taught me," anchor the declaration of steadfastness and divine instruction.
The thread — The motif of not turning aside from divine instruction appears in Psalms 18:21 and Proverbs 5:7, while the concept of internal, unmediated teaching resurfaces in 1 John 2:27.
Why it lands — The text states that obedience to God's ordinances results directly from His personal instruction rather than human effort. It requires the reader to recognize divine pedagogy as the necessary foundation for moral restraint.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
Cross-references
- 1 John 2:27 And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
- Psalms 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
- Proverbs 5:7 So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:13 And we continually thank God because, when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which is also now at work in you who believe.
- Jeremiah 32:40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
- Ephesians 4:20 But this is not the way you came to know Christ.
- 1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.