Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me, But thy laws are my delight.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
In Context
142Thy righteousness is everlasting righteousness, And thy law is truth.
144The justice of thine ordinances is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live!
Cross References
Psalms 18:4The snares of death encompassed me; The floods of destruction filled me with dismay;
Psalms 116:3The snares of death encompassed me, And the pains of the underworld seized upon me; I found distress and sorrow.
Psalms 119:47I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I love;
Psalms 119:107I am exceedingly afflicted; Revive me, O LORD! according to thy word!
Mark 14:33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John; and began to be in great consternation and anguish.
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 →