Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
In Context
154Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.
156Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances.
Cross References
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Psalms 18:27For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.
Isaiah 46:12Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:
Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
Romans 3:11There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:154-155
20. RESH. 153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Here, I. David prays for succour in distress. Is any afflicted? let him pray; let him pray as David does here. 1. He has an eye to God's pity, and prays, " Consider my affliction; take it into thy thoughts, and all the circumstances of it, and sit not by as one unconcerned." God is never unmindful of his people's afflictions, but he will have us to put him in… Read the whole commentary →