Psalms 119:97
O how I love your law! All the day long I muse on it.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
In Context
96I have seen a limit to all things: but your commandment is spacious exceedingly.
98Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies: for it is mine forever.
Cross References
Joshua 1:8This book of the law you should never cease to have on your lips. You must pore over it day and night, that you may be mindful to carry out all that is written in it, for so will you make your way prosperous, so will you succeed.
Psalms 119:15I will muse upon your precepts, and look to your paths.
Psalms 119:48I will lift up my hands to your commandments, and muse upon your statutes.
Psalms 119:127Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold.
Psalms 119:165Right well do they fare who love your law: they go on their way without stumbling.
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 →