Psalms 119:129 meaning and explanation

Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.

Psalms 119:129, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the psalmist, praying to the LORD in the long acrostic poem of Psalm 119, where nearly every verse lifts up God's law as the answer to affliction and opposition. Here he calls the testimonies wonderful, a word for something beyond ordinary understanding, and gives that wonder as his reason for obeying them.

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