Psalm 19:9
New International Version
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of the LORD are firm, and all of them are righteous.

New Living Translation
Reverence for the LORD is pure, lasting forever. The laws of the LORD are true; each one is fair.

English Standard Version
the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

Berean Standard Bible
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.

King James Bible
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

New King James Version
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

New American Standard Bible
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether.

NASB 1995
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether.

NASB 1977
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether.

Legacy Standard Bible
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of Yahweh are true; they are righteous altogether.

Amplified Bible
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the LORD are true, they are righteous altogether.

Christian Standard Bible
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are reliable and altogether righteous.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are reliable and altogether righteous.

American Standard Version
The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Jehovah are true, and righteous altogether.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The awe of LORD JEHOVAH is pure and stands to eternity; the judgments of LORD JEHOVAH are in truth and are just in everything.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and justified altogether.

Contemporary English Version
Worshiping the LORD is sacred; he will always be worshiped. All his decisions are correct and fair.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for ever and ever: the judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves.

English Revised Version
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The fear of the LORD is pure. It endures forever. The decisions of the LORD are true. They are completely fair.

Good News Translation
Reverence for the LORD is good; it will continue forever. The judgments of the LORD are just; they are always fair.

International Standard Version
The fear of the LORD is clean, standing forever. The judgments of the LORD are true; they are altogether righteous.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever; The ordinances of the LORD are true, they are righteous altogether;

Literal Standard Version
The fear of YHWH [is] clean, standing for all time, | The judgments of YHWH [are] true, | They have been righteous—together.

Majority Standard Bible
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.

New American Bible
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The statutes of the LORD are true, all of them just;

NET Bible
The commands to fear the LORD are right and endure forever. The judgments given by the LORD are trustworthy and absolutely just.

New Revised Standard Version
the fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

New Heart English Bible
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The LORD's ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Webster's Bible Translation
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

World English Bible
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.

Young's Literal Translation
The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together.

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Context
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
8The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes. 9The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous. 10They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.…

Cross References
Revelation 19:2
For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her hand."

Psalm 111:8
They are upheld forever and ever, enacted in truth and uprightness.

Psalm 119:138
The testimonies You have laid down are righteous and altogether faithful.

Psalm 119:142
Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.

Psalm 119:144
Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

Zephaniah 3:15
The LORD has taken away your punishment; He has turned back your enemy. Israel's King, the LORD, is among you; no longer will you fear any harm.


Treasury of Scripture

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

The fear

Psalm 34:11-14
Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD…

Psalm 36:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalm 115:13
He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

enduring

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Psalm 112:1-6
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments…

judgments

Psalm 10:5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

Psalm 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

Psalm 72:1,2
A Psalm for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son…

true [Heb.

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Psalm 19
1. The creatures show God's glory
7. The excellence of the divine law
12. David prays for grace














(9) The fear of the Lord.--Here plainly not a moral quality of the individual, but, as in Proverbs 15:33 (comp. Deuteronomy 17:19), religion, the service demanded by the Law, which, being "pure and undented," endures, while the false systems of idolatrous nations perish. Based on the eternal principle of right, the judgments of God, it is eternal as they are.

Verse 9. - The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever. Hengstenberg explains "the fear of the Lord" in this place as "the instruction afforded by God for fearing him." And certainly, unless we adopt some such explanation, we shall find it difficult to account for the intrusion of the clause into its present position. The Law, the testimony, the statutes (or precepts), the commandment (vers. 7, 8), and the judgments (ver. 9), are external to man, objective; the fear of the Lord. as commonly understood, is internal, subjective, a "settled habit of his soul." It is not a thing of the same kind with the other five nominatives, and appears out of place among them. Hence it seems best, with Professor Alexander, to adopt Hengstenberg's explanation. The Law, viewed as teaching the fear of God, is undoubtedly "clean " - i.e. pure, perfect - and "endures for ever," or is of perpetual obligation. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. In "judgments" we have another of the recognized synonyms for the entire Law (Psalm 119:7, 13, 43, 52, 62), which is from first to last "exceeding righteous and true" (Psalm 119:138, Prayer-book Version).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The fear
יִרְאַ֤ת (yir·’aṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 3374: Fear, reverence

of the LORD
יְהוָ֨ה ׀ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

is pure,
טְהוֹרָה֮ (ṭə·hō·w·rāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 2889: Clean, pure

enduring forever;
עוֹמֶ֪דֶת (‘ō·w·me·ḏeṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

the judgments
מִֽשְׁפְּטֵי־ (miš·pə·ṭê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

of the LORD
יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

are true,
אֱמֶ֑ת (’ĕ·meṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness

being altogether
יַחְדָּֽו׃ (yaḥ·dāw)
Adverb
Strong's 3162: A unit, unitedly

righteous.
צָֽדְק֥וּ (ṣā·ḏə·qū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6663: To be just or righteous


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