Psalms 119:143
Distress and trouble have overtaken me: [yet] are thy commandments my delights.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
In Context
142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
144Righteous are thy testimonies for everlasting: give me understanding, that I may live.
Cross References
Psalms 18:4(18:5) The bonds of death encompassed me, and the floods of destruction made me afraid.
Psalms 116:3The bands of death had compassed me, and the pangs of the nether world had overtaken me; I had met with distress and sorrow:
Psalms 119:47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I love.
Psalms 119:107I am afflicted exceedingly much: O Lord, revive me, according to thy word.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:143
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Observe, 1. That God's word is righteousness, and it is an everlasting righteousness. It is the rule of God's judgment, and it is consonant to his counsels from eternity and will direct his sentence for eternity. The word of God will judge us, it will judge us in righteousness, and by it our everlasting state will be determined. This should possess us with a very great reverence for the word of God that it is righteousness itself, the… Read the whole commentary →