Psalm 119:18
New International Version
Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.

New Living Translation
Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions.

English Standard Version
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Berean Standard Bible
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

King James Bible
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

New King James Version
Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.

New American Standard Bible
Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your Law.

NASB 1995
Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law.

NASB 1977
Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Thy law.

Legacy Standard Bible
Open my eyes, that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law.

Amplified Bible
Open my eyes [to spiritual truth] so that I may behold Wonderful things from Your law.

Christian Standard Bible
Open my eyes so that I may contemplate wondrous things from your instruction.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Open my eyes so that I may contemplate wonderful things from Your instruction.

American Standard Version
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Open my eyes that I may see the wonders that are in your Law.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Unveil thou mine eyes, and I shall perceive wondrous things of thy law.

Contemporary English Version
Open my mind and let me discover the wonders of your Law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.

English Revised Version
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Uncover my eyes so that I may see the miraculous things in your teachings.

Good News Translation
Open my eyes, so that I may see the wonderful truths in your law.

International Standard Version
Open my eyes so that I will observe amazing things from your instruction.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of Thy law.

Literal Standard Version
Uncover my eyes, and I behold wonders out of Your law.

Majority Standard Bible
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

New American Bible
Open my eyes to see clearly the wonders of your law.

NET Bible
Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in your law!

New Revised Standard Version
Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

New Heart English Bible
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your Law.

Webster's Bible Translation
Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

World English Bible
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Young's Literal Translation
Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
17Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word. 18Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law. 19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.…

Cross References
Psalm 119:17
Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.

Psalm 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:129
Wonderful are Your testimonies; therefore I obey them.

Isaiah 29:18
On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.


Treasury of Scripture

Open you my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

open.

Isaiah 29:10-12,18
For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered…

Isaiah 32:3
And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

wondrous

Psalm 119:96
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Hosea 8:12
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

2 Corinthians 3:13
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














(18) Open.--Literally, uncover (see margin), as if without Divine grace the eyes were veiled to the wonder and beauty of the moral law. (Comp. 2Corinthians 4:18.)

Verse 18. - Open thou mine eyes. Since the Fall, men's eyes are naturally blinded, or, at any rate, have a veil over them, which God must remove before they can see clearly (compare the comment on ver. 15). That I may behold wondrous things out of thy Law. Wonderful spiritual truths that lie hidden, even under the very simplest precepts of God's Law (comp. Matthew 5:21-37).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Open
גַּל־ (gal-)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal

my eyes
עֵינַ֥י (‘ê·nay)
Noun - cdc | first person common singular
Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain

that I may see
וְאַבִּ֑יטָה (wə·’ab·bî·ṭāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 5027: To scan, look intently at, to regard

wondrous things
נִ֝פְלָא֗וֹת (nip̄·lā·’ō·wṯ)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 6381: To separate, distinguish, to be, great, difficult, wonderful

from Your law.
מִתּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃ (mit·tō·w·rā·ṯe·ḵā)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law


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