Psalms 119:93
I will ever keep your orders in mind; for in them I have life.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
In Context
92If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.
94I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.
Cross References
Psalms 119:16I will have delight in your rules; I will not let your word go out of my mind.
Psalms 119:50This is my comfort in my trouble; that your sayings have given me life.
1 Peter 1:23Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:93
92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. Here is, 1. The great distress that David was in. He was in affliction, and ready to perish in his affliction, not likely to die, so much as likely to despair; he was ready to give up all for gone, and to look upon himself as cut off from God's sight; he therefore admires the goodness of God to him, that he had not perished, that he kept the possession of his own soul, and was not driven out of his wits by his troubles, but… Read the whole commentary →