Psalms 119:12 meaning and explanation

Blessed are You, O LORD; teach me Your statutes.

Psalms 119:12, Berean Standard Bible

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In this verse the psalmist turns from describing the blessed person to addressing God directly. Psalm 119 is a long acrostic poem in Hebrew, each stanza built on a successive letter of the alphabet, and this line falls in the second stanza, verses 9 to 16, where the speaker asks how a young man can keep his way pure.

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