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"...[Join] my heart to fear thy name."

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This verse is one of my favorites - can I even say that - that I have a favorite verse in God's Word?  I don't know, but it has  been one that hasn't left my lips, and it's just the last part (even though the whole verse is wonderful). "Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name." Psalm 86:11 "unite my heart"?   When I first came across this passage the last part of the verse "troubled" me; I didn't know what it meant. I prayed for understanding of His Word and the words of His servant, David. The word unite  means -  to join, unite, be joined, be united ( Qal) to be united (Piel) to unite Oh!  "To be joined".  Wow. "[join] my heart to fear thy name."  For me, it made the picture clearer.  Sometimes I think that Satan uses even easy-to-understand-words to make us stumble.  Have you ever had that?  Just a thought. This has been kind of a random post...but th