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Psalms 119:13 Explained in Context

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Verse 13. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

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Role in This Section

Psalm 119:13: The Torah wording “With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy…” advances the instruction or prayer titled “Twenty-two alphabetic stanzas delight in Torah: Beth stanza.”

Read It With

  • Psalms 119:9–16
  • Psalms 119:1–176

Read Psalms 119:13 with 119:9–16 and 119:1–176. Read alone, “With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 119:9–16, the individual voice carries the movement “Beth stanza” as part of “Twenty-two alphabetic stanzas delight in Torah.” Its acrostic-torah-prayer form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.

Why It Needs Context

The line “With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth” is a premise, image, address, response, or transition inside Psalms 119:9–16; its parallel neighbors and the movement titled “Twenty-two alphabetic stanzas delight in Torah: Beth stanza” must supply the claim before teaching or application.

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Read Psalms 119:9–16 — Twenty-two alphabetic stanzas delight in Torah: Beth stanza
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How certain is this explanation? probable

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.

Exact location: Psalms 119:9–16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 119:9–16

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