YOD
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me;
Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
74 Those who fear You will be glad when they see me,
Because I have hoped in Your word.
75 I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
76 Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort,
According to Your word to Your servant.
77 Let Your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;
For Your law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be ashamed,
For they treated me wrongfully with falsehood;
But I will meditate on Your precepts.
79 Let those who fear You turn to me,
Those who know Your testimonies.
80 Let my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes,
That I may not be ashamed.
It’s easy to see how this stanza can be applied to the Messiah.
Christ’s human life or dependence on God and affection for His Word shine forth in every verse of this stanza. … His experience of the trustworthiness of the Scriptures enheartens His disciples; and when by-and-by they see Him by sight they will indeed be glad!
The closing verses may be read in the future tense, as in Hebrew. They predict that the proud shall be put to shame; that those who worship God shall turn to Messiah in order to learn the Divine testimonies; and that Christ shall never be put to shame because His heart was sound in the statutes of Jehovah. — Williams, page 393.
