Psalms 119:114
My shelter and my shield art thou: for thy word do I wait.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
In Context
113SAMECH. Those of divided thoughts I hate; but thy law do I love.
115Depart from me, ye evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of God.
Cross References
Psalms 3:4(3:5) With my voice I call unto the Lord, and he answereth me out of his holy mountain. Selah.
Psalms 84:11(84:12) For a sun and shield is the Lord God; grace and glory will the Lord give; he will not withhold any good from those that walk with integrity.
Psalms 119:43And snatch not the word of truth out of my mouth too greatly; for I wait for thy ordinances.
Psalms 119:81CAPH. My soul ardently desireth for thy salvation: for thy word do I wait.
Isaiah 32:2And every one shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivulets of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a large rock in a languishing 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 →