Psalms 119:97
MEM O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
In Context
96I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.
98Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;
Joshua 1:8Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.
Psalms 119:15I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.
Psalms 119:48And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
Psalms 119:127For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.
Psalms 119:165Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:97
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Here we have David's testimony from his own experience, 1. Of the vanity of the world and its insufficiency to make us happy: I have seen an end of all perfection. Poor perfection which one sees an end of! Yet such are all those things in this world which pass for perfections. David, in his time, had seen Goliath, the strongest, overcome, Asahel, the swiftest, overtaken, Ahithophel, the wisest, befooled, Absalom, the fairest,… Read the whole commentary →