Psalms 119:114
You are my shelter and shield: in your word do I hope.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
In Context
113I hate people of divided heart, but your law do I love.
115Begone, you wicked people, I will keep the commands of my God.
Cross References
Psalms 3:4When loudly I call to the Lord, from his holy hill he gives answer. Selah
Psalms 84:11for the Lord is sun and shield, the Lord gives grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from the life that is blameless.
Psalms 119:43Snatch not from my mouth the word of truth, for in your judgments I hope.
Psalms 119:81I long for you to rescue me, I put my hope in your word.
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 →