Psalms 119:114
You keep me safe and you defend me, your word gives me reason to hope.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
In Context
113I hate people who are two-faced, but I love your law.
115Leave me alone, you evil people, and let me keep the commandments of my God.
Cross References
Psalms 3:4I cry out to the Lord for help, and he answers me from his holy mountain. Selah.
Psalms 84:11For the Lord God is our sun and shield, and he gives us grace and honor. The Lord doesn't hold back anything good from those who do right.
Psalms 119:43Don't ever prevent me from being able to speak your words of truth, for I place my complete confidence in your just judgments.
Psalms 119:81I'm exhausted waiting for you to save me, but my hope is in your word.
Isaiah 32:2Each one will be like a shelter from the wind, like a protection from the storm, like rivers of water in the dry desert, like the shade of a large rock in a sun-baked land.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:114
15. SAMECH. 113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. Here we have, 1. David's dread of the risings of sin, and the first beginnings of it: I hate vain thoughts. He does not mean that he hated them in others, for there he could not discern them, but he hated them in his own heart. Every good man makes conscience of his thoughts, for they are words to God. Vain thoughts, how light soever most make of them, are sinful and hurtful, and therefore we should account them hateful and dreadful, for they do not only… Read the whole commentary →