Psalms 119:95
Wicked men have waited for me to destroy me; [but] I will reflect on thy testimonies.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
In Context
94Thine am I, save me; for thy precepts have I sought.
96Of all perfection have I seen the end; [but] thy commandment is exceedingly extended.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:20And now in accordance with all the longing of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand.
Psalms 10:8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes search for the unfortunate.
Psalms 37:32The wicked looketh out for the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Psalms 119:24Also thy testimonies are my delight, my counsellors.
Psalms 119:61Companies of wicked men have surrounded me; but I have not forgotten thy law.
Psalms 119:85The presumptuous have dug pits for me, which is not in accordance with thy law.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:95
94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. Here, 1. David claims relation to God: " I am thine, devoted to thee and owned by thee, thine in covenant." He does not say, Thou art mine (as Dr. Manton observes), though that follows of course, because that were a higher challenge; but, I am thine, expressing himself in a more humble and dutiful way of resignation; nor does he say, I am thus, but, I am thine, not pleading his own good property or qualification, but God's propriety in him: " I am thine, not… Read the whole commentary →