Psalms 119:114
You are my secret place and my breastplate against danger; my hope is in your word.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
In Context
113SAMECH I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.
115Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
Cross References
Psalms 3:4\3:3\But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.
Psalms 84:11\84:10\For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
Psalms 119:43Take not your true word quite out of my mouth; for I have put my hope in your decisions.
Psalms 119:81CAPH My soul is wasted with desire for your salvation: but I have hope in your word.
Isaiah 32:2And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:114
15. SAMECH. 113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. Here we have, 1. David's dread of the risings of sin, and the first beginnings of it: I hate vain thoughts. He does not mean that he hated them in others, for there he could not discern them, but he hated them in his own heart. Every good man makes conscience of his thoughts, for they are words to God. Vain thoughts, how light soever most make of them, are sinful and hurtful, and therefore we should account them hateful and dreadful, for they do not only… Read the whole commentary →