Psalms 119:95
The wicked have awaited me to destroy me; [but] I attend unto thy testimonies.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
In Context
94I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
96I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:20And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and it will be for us to deliver him up into the king's hand.
Psalms 10:8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.
Psalms 37:32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him:
Psalms 119:24Thy testimonies also are my delight [and] my counsellors.
Psalms 119:61The bands of the wicked have wrapped me round: I have not forgotten thy law.
Psalms 119:85The proud have digged pits for me, which is not according to thy law.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:95
94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. Here, 1. David claims relation to God: " I am thine, devoted to thee and owned by thee, thine in covenant." He does not say, Thou art mine (as Dr. Manton observes), though that follows of course, because that were a higher challenge; but, I am thine, expressing himself in a more humble and dutiful way of resignation; nor does he say, I am thus, but, I am thine, not pleading his own good property or qualification, but God's propriety in him: " I am thine, not… Read the whole commentary →