PSALMS 119:108 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments.”
Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me your ordinances. The psalmist offers his words ('freewill offerings of my mouth') as praise while simultaneously requesting instruction ('teach me your ordinances'). This verse indicates that praise and learning are interdependent.
Church Fathers on Psalms 119:108
1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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