Psalms 119:97
MEM. Oh how do I love thy law! all the day is it my meditation.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
In Context
96Of all perfection have I seen the end; [but] thy commandment is exceedingly extended.
98Wiser than my enemy doth thy commandment make me; for it is perpetually with me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart:
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, in order that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous, and then shalt thou have good success.
Psalms 119:15On thy precepts will I meditate, and direct my look unto thy paths.
Psalms 119:48And so will I lift up my hands unto thy commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on thy statutes.
Psalms 119:127Therefore do I love thy commandments more than gold, and more than fine gold.
Psalms 119:165Abundant peace have they who love thy law; and thee is nothing that causeth them to stumble.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:97
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Here we have David's testimony from his own experience, 1. Of the vanity of the world and its insufficiency to make us happy: I have seen an end of all perfection. Poor perfection which one sees an end of! Yet such are all those things in this world which pass for perfections. David, in his time, had seen Goliath, the strongest, overcome, Asahel, the swiftest, overtaken, Ahithophel, the wisest, befooled, Absalom, the fairest,… Read the whole commentary →