Psalms 119:80 meaning and explanation

May my heart be blameless in Your statutes, that I may not be put to shame.

Psalms 119:80, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is an unnamed psalmist, likely a young man facing slander and opposition from rulers and the arrogant, who prays through this long acrostic poem about loving God's law. Here he asks that his heart be blameless, meaning whole and undivided, in God's statutes, the Hebrew chuqqim, the fixed decrees God has set.

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