Bible Strands
Psalms 119:135
Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God directly in a prayer, placing this request immediately after the plea for deliverance from human oppression in the preceding verse.
The words — הָאֵר (ha.'Er) literally means "make shine," and חֻקֶּֽי/ךָ (chu.Kei./cha) translates to "Your decrees."
The thread — The motif of God causing His face to shine appears in Numbers 6:25, Psalms 4:6, and Psalms 80:7 as a request for divine favor and deliverance.
Why it lands — The text requires a reader to seek divine illumination before claiming understanding, framing obedience to God's statutes as a learned response to His grace rather than human effort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
Cross-references
- Numbers 6:25 may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
- Psalms 4:6 Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.
- Psalms 80:7 Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Psalms 80:3 Restore us, O God, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Psalms 80:19 Restore us, O LORD God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
- Luke 24:45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
- Job 33:26 He prays to God and finds favor; he sees God’s face and shouts for joy, and God restores His righteousness to that man.
- Job 34:32 Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’
- Job 36:22 Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
- Job 35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’