Psalms 119:143
Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
In Context
142Your righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain.
144The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.
Cross References
Psalms 18:4\18:3\I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.
Psalms 116:3The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 119:47And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.
Psalms 119:107I am greatly troubled, O Lord, give me life in keeping with your word.
Mark 14:33And he took with him Peter and James and John, and grief and great trouble came on him.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:143
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Observe, 1. That God's word is righteousness, and it is an everlasting righteousness. It is the rule of God's judgment, and it is consonant to his counsels from eternity and will direct his sentence for eternity. The word of God will judge us, it will judge us in righteousness, and by it our everlasting state will be determined. This should possess us with a very great reverence for the word of God that it is righteousness itself, the… Read the whole commentary →