Psalms 119:97
Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
In Context
96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.
98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
Joshua 1:8This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
Psalms 119:15I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.
Psalms 119:48I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
Psalms 119:127Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
Psalms 119:165Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your instruction; nothing can make them stumble.
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 →