Psalms 119:120
My flesh shuddereth for fear of Thee; and I am afraid of Thy judgments.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
In Context
119Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love Thy testimonies.
121AIN. I have done justice and righteousness; leave me not to mine oppressors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 6:20And the men of Beth-shemesh said: 'Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?'
2 Samuel 6:9And David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said: 'How shall the ark of the LORD come unto me?'
1 Chronicles 24:16the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel;
2 Chronicles 34:21'Go ye, inquire of the LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according unto all that is written in this book.'
Job 23:15Therefore am I affrighted at His presence; when I consider, I am afraid of Him.
Psalms 88:16(88-17) Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:119-121
118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. 119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. Here is, I. God's judgment on wicked people, on those that wander from his statutes, that take their measures from other rules and will not have God to reign over them. All departure from God's statutes is certainly an error, and will prove a fatal one.… Read the whole commentary →