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Psalm 119:127-129
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 119:127-129
New Catholic Bible
127 That is why I love your precepts
more than gold, even the purest gold.[a]
128 That is why I regard all your commandments as right
and despise every way that is false.
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129 [b]Wonderful are your statutes;
therefore, I willingly observe them.
Footnotes
- Psalm 119:127 The psalmist compares the Lord’s commands favorably with pure gold (see Job 22:25; 28:15f; Prov 3:14; 8:10, 19; 16:16).
- Psalm 119:129 God’s word illumines so that even those not experienced in the realities of life (the simple; see Ps 116; Prov 1:4) may gain wisdom (see Ps 19:8). The psalmist longs to receive, understand, and put it into practice. So great is his zeal for God’s law that he weeps over the continuance of rebellion and transgression on the part of evildoers.
