Psalms 119:57
My portion are you, O Lord: I have promised to keep your words.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
In Context
56My lot has been this, that I have kept your precepts.
58I entreat you with all my heart; grant me your promised favor.
Cross References
Joshua 24:18The Lord drove out all the nations before us, all the Amorites who lived in the land. So we will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”
Joshua 24:24The people answered, “The Lord our God will we serve, and we will listen to his voice.”
Psalms 16:5The Lord is my share and my portion, my fate is in your strong hands.
Psalms 73:26Though flesh and heart waste away, yet God is the rock of my heart, yet God is my portion forever.
Psalms 119:106I have sworn an oath, and will keep it, to observe your righteous judgments.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:56-57
55 I have remembered thy name, O Lord , in the night, and have kept thy law. 56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Here is, 1. The converse David had with the word of God; he kept it in mind, and upon every occasion he called it to mind. God's name is the discovery he has made of himself to us in and by his word. This is his memorial unto all generations, and therefore we should always keep it in memory—remember it in the night, upon a waking bed, when we are communing with our own hearts. When others were… Read the whole commentary →