Psalms 119:57
CHETH. My portion, O Jehovah, I have said, is to keep thy words.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
In Context
56This I have had, because I have observed thy precepts.
58I have sought thy favour with [my] whole heart: be gracious unto me according to thy word.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 26:17Thou hast this day accepted Jehovah to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and to hearken unto his voice;
Joshua 24:18And Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, and the Amorites the inhabitants of the land: so therefore we will serve Jehovah, for he is our God.
Joshua 24:24And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our God will we serve, and to his voice will we hearken.
Psalms 16:5Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
Psalms 119:106I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:56-57
55 I have remembered thy name, O Lord , in the night, and have kept thy law. 56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Here is, 1. The converse David had with the word of God; he kept it in mind, and upon every occasion he called it to mind. God's name is the discovery he has made of himself to us in and by his word. This is his memorial unto all generations, and therefore we should always keep it in memory—remember it in the night, upon a waking bed, when we are communing with our own hearts. When others were… Read the whole commentary →