I will lift my hands to ¹  your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

biblegateway Psa 119:48

And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments, Which I love; And I will meditate on Your statutes.

I will lift up my hands to Your commands, which I love, and will meditate on Your statutes.

I lift my hands in prayer because of your commandments, which I love. I will reflect on your laws.

biblegateway Psa 119:48

I lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and I meditate on your decrees.

I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

bibleoremus Psa 119:48

I revere your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

I am devoted to your commandments; I love them, and meditate on your statutes.

biblegateway Psa 119:48

My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments, Which I love, And I will meditate on Your statutes.

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

biblegateway Psa 119:48

I will lift my hands to ¹  your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

¹ tn Lifting the hands is often associated with prayer (Pss 28:2; 63:4; Lam 2:19). (1) Because praying to God’s law borders on the extreme, some prefer to emend the text to “I lift up my hands to you,” eliminating “your commands, which I love” as dittographic. In this view these words were accidentally repeated from the previous verse. (2) However, it is possible that the psalmist closely associates the law with God himself because he views the law as the expression of the divine will. (3) Another option is that “lifting the hands” does not refer to prayer here, but to the psalmist’s desire to receive and appropriate the law. (4) Still others understand this to be an action praising God’s commands (so NCV; cf. TEV, CEV, NLT).