I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
KJV
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
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My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved,.... Showing by such a gesture his great esteem of them, and affection for them; stretching out his hands, and embracing them with both arms, as it were: and this being a praying gesture,
Ti2 2:8
, may signify his earnest desire and request that he might have grace and spiritual strength to enable him to observe them; and it being used in swearing,
Gen 14:22
, may express his firm resolution in the strength of divine grace to keep them; and the phrase signifying a doing or an attempt to do anything,
Gen 41:44
, may denote his practical observance of the commands, his putting his hand to do them with all his might;
and I will meditate in thy statutes; and thereby get a better understanding of them, and be in a better disposition and capacity to keep them.
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