I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
The one who speaks lays open his own course of conduct before God in full declaration. He rests in confidence that God has heard him when he has done so. Out of that heard confession he makes his request that God instruct him in the divine statutes. The utterance belongs to a psalm whose whole burden is the exaltation of God's law. That law and God's Word are set forth as the rule for life, the place where the principles of righteousness are revealed and the distinction between right and wrong is made plain. The utterance marks the sacredness of God's law and calls for solemn earnestness in reading it as a testimony against the wickedness of the world, for that wickedness has risen to the point where the Lord will surely intervene.
The one who speaks lays open his own course of conduct before God in full declaration. He rests in confidence that God has heard him when he has done so. Out of that heard confession he makes his request that God instruct him in the divine statutes. The utterance belongs to a psalm whose whole burden is the exaltation of God's law. That law and God's Word are set forth as the rule for life, the place where the principles of righteousness are revealed and the distinction between right and wrong is made plain. The utterance marks the sacredness of God's law and calls for solemn earnestness in reading it as a testimony against the wickedness of the world, for that wickedness has risen to the point where the Lord will surely intervene.