Psalms 119:114
You [are] my hiding place and my shield, || I have hoped for Your word.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
In Context
113[SAMEKH] I have hated doubting ones, || And I have loved Your law.
115Turn aside from me, you evildoers, || And I keep the commands of my God.
Cross References
Psalms 3:4My voice [is] to YHWH: I call and He answers me from His holy hill, Selah.
Psalms 84:11For YHWH God [is] a sun and a shield, || YHWH gives grace and glory. He does not withhold good || To those walking in uprightness.
Psalms 119:43And You do not utterly take away || The word of truth from my mouth, || Because I have hoped for Your judgment.
Psalms 119:81[KAPH] My soul has been consumed for Your salvation, || I have hoped for Your word.
Isaiah 32:2And each has been as a hiding place [from] wind, || And as a secret hiding place [from] inundation, || As streams of waters in a dry place, || As a shadow of a heavy rock in a weary 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 →