Psalms 119:54
Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
In Context
53I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.
55I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
Psalms 89:1Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:54
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Here is, 1. The character of wicked people; he means those that are openly and grossly wicked: They forsake thy law. Every sin is a transgression of the law, but a course and way of wilful and avowed sin is downright forsaking it and throwing it off. 2. The impression which the wickedness of the wicked made upon David; it frightened him, it put him into an amazement. He trembled to think of the dishonour thereby done to God, the… Read the whole commentary →