Psalms 119:18
Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from Your law.
BSB
ASV
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.
KJV
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
LETTER 58.9 (420)
Hear me, therefore, my fellow servant, my friend, my brother; give ear for a moment that I may tell you how you are to walk in the holy Scriptures. All that we read in the divine books, while glistening and shining without, is yet far sweeter within. "He who desires to eat the kernel must first break the nut." "Open my eyes," says David, "that I may behold wondrous things out of your law."
Open thou mine eyes,.... The eyes of my heart or understanding, as Kimchi; or, "reveal mine eyes" (t); take off the veil from them: there is a veil of darkness and ignorance on the hearts of all men, with respect to divine and spiritual things; their understandings are darkened, yea, darkness itself.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Isaiah 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
leads to
“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a…
When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?’”
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.
to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
Through
Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified…
leads to
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
