Quotes About Understanding

Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

May my cry come before You, O LORD; give me understanding according to Your word.

Too long have I dwelt among those who hate peace.

I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.

You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

Even before a word is on my tongue, You know all about it, O LORD.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.

He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!

for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,

and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel

by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.