Psalms 119:142
Just is your justice forever, and trusty is your law.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
In Context
141I am little and held in contempt, but your precepts I have not forgotten.
143Stress and strain are upon me, but your commandments are my delight.
Cross References
Psalms 19:9Respect for the Lord is clean, it endures forever. The Lord’s judgments are true and right altogether.
Psalms 119:144Right are your charges forever, instruct me that I may live.
Psalms 119:160The sum of your word is truth, all your laws are just and eternal.
John 17:17Consecrate them by the truth; your message is truth.
2 Thessalonians 1:6since God deems it just to inflict suffering on those who are now inflicting suffering on you,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:142
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. Here is, 1. David pious and yet poor. He was a man after God's own heart, one whom the King of kings did delight to honour, and yet small and despised in his own account and in the account of many others. Men's excellency cannot always secure them from contempt; nay, it often exposes them to the scorn of others and always makes them low in their own eyes. God has chosen the foolish things of the world, and it has been the common lot of his people to be… Read the whole commentary →