Psalms 119:26
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
American King James Version (AKJV)
I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
American Standard Version (ASV)
I declared my ways, and thou answeredst me: Teach me thy statutes.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.
Webster's Revision
I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
World English Bible
I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
English Revised Version (ERV)
I declared my ways, and thou answeredst me: teach me thy statutes.
Clarke's Psalms 119:26 Bible Commentary
I have declared my ways - ספרתי sipparti, "I have numbered my ways," I have searched them out; I have investigated them. And that he had earnestly prayed for pardon of what was wrong in them, is evident; for he adds, "Thou heardest me."
Barnes's Psalms 119:26 Bible Commentary
I have declared my ways - That is, I have declared or recounted them to thee. I have made mention of my cares, troubles, anxieties, purposes. I have laid them all before thee, reserving or keeping back nothing.
And thou heardest me - Thou didst answer me. It is only when we declare all our ways before God, that we can hope he "will" hear us. It is right and proper that we should go before God with all our cares and troubles. There is nothing that gives us anxiety, of which we may not speak to him, however trivial it may seem to be - even as a child speaks to a mother of the smallest matter that troubles him. When this is done, we may be assured that God will not turn away from us, or disregard our cry.
"I told him all my secret grief;
My secret groaning reached his cars;
He gave my inward pains relief,
And calmed the tumult of my fears."
Teach me thy statutes - Make known to me thy will. Acquaint me with what thou wouldst have me to do. See Psalm 119:12.
Wesley's Psalms 119:26 Bible Commentary
119:26 My ways - My sins; and all my cares, and fears, and troubles.