Psalms 119:97
MEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
In Context
96I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.
98Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart;
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from thy mouth; and thou shalt meditate upon it day and night, that thou mayest take heed to do according to all that is written therein; for then shalt thou have good success in thy ways, and then shalt thou prosper.
Psalms 119:15I will meditate upon thy precepts, and have respect unto thy paths.
Psalms 119:48And I will lift up my hands unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Psalms 119:127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold.
Psalms 119:165Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing doth stumble them.
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 →