Psalms 71:8
in Psalms 71My mouth is filled with Your praise and with Your splendor all day long.
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ASV
My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, And with thy honor all the day.
KJV
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
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This verse in Psalms 71
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
a portent to many
on Psalms 71:7-9
A portent is a sign people stare at, and a long life under God's hand has made the psalmist one. His mouth stays filled with praise all day long. The plea at the centre of the psalm is that God not discard him in old age, when his strength fails.
This site's exposition
My mouth is filled with Your praise
Henry read the line as a wish that praise fill the mouth where complaint had been. Spurgeon added that a mouth filled with praise all day long has no room for murmuring. Praise crowds out complaint.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"Let my mouth be fulfilled with praise, that with hymn I may tell of Your glory, all the day long Your magnificence" [Psalm 71:8]. What is "all the day long"? Without intermission. In prosperity, because You comfort: in adversity, because You correct: before I was in being, because You made; when I was in being, because You gave health: when I had sinned, because You forgave; when I was converted, because You helped; when I had persevered, because You crowned.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
): " Let my mouth be filled with thy praise, as now it is with my complaints, and then I shall not be ashamed of my hope, but my enemies will be ashamed of their insolence." Those that love God love to be praising him, and desire to be doing it all the day, not only in their morning and evening devotions, not only seven times a day ( Ps. cxix.
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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day. What a blessed mouthful! A man never grows nauseated though the flavour of it be all day in his mouth. God's bread is always in our mouths, so should his praise be. He fills us with good; let us be also filled with gratitude. This would leave no room for murmuring or backbiting; therefore, may we well join with holy David in this sacred wish.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Let my mouth be filled - This is an appeal to himself, in view of the goodness of God, to praise him always. See the notes at Psa 35:28. With thy praise - With the expressions of praise. And with thy honor all the day - With such expressions as shall promote thy glory, and make thy honor known.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יִמָּ֣לֵא | yimale' | it is filled | H4390 → | 249 times |
| פִ֭י | fi | mouth my | H6310 → | 498 times |
| תְּהִלָּתֶ֑ךָ | tehilatekha | praise your | H8416 → | 56 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַ֝יּ֗וֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| תִּפְאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃ | tifartekha | splendor your | H8597 → | 51 times |
יִמָּ֣לֵאit is filled
yimale'H4390 →249 times
פִ֭יmouth my
fiH6310 →498 times
תְּהִלָּתֶ֑ךָpraise your
tehilatekhaH8416 →56 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הַ֝יּ֗וֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
תִּפְאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃splendor your
tifartekhaH8597 →51 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 71:15My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
it leads to
- Psalms 35:28
Then my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness and Your praises all day long.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 40:5
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I…
- Psalms 35:28
Through
Psalms 146:2I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
it leads to
- Psalms 63:4
So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
- Psalms 104:33
I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
- Psalms 71:14–15
But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.
- Psalms 63:4
Through
Psalms 104:1Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.
it leads to
- Psalms 103:22
Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul!
- Psalms 145:3
Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised; His greatness is unsearchable.
- Psalms 96:6
Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty fill His sanctuary.
- Psalms 103:22
About Psalms
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Psalms; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 71; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 3; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.