Psalms 119:95
The wicked lay wait to destroy me, but I give heed to your charge.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
In Context
94I am yours, O save me, for I give my mind to your precepts.
96I have seen a limit to all things: but your commandment is spacious exceedingly.
Cross References
Psalms 10:8Lying in secret in some village ambush, and stealthily watching, they murder the innocent.
Psalms 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to put them to death.
Psalms 119:24Your charges are my delight, they are my counsellors.
Psalms 119:61Though the godless have wound their cords round me, I have not forgotten your law.
Psalms 119:85Proud people have dug for me pits people who do not conform to your law.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:95
94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. Here, 1. David claims relation to God: " I am thine, devoted to thee and owned by thee, thine in covenant." He does not say, Thou art mine (as Dr. Manton observes), though that follows of course, because that were a higher challenge; but, I am thine, expressing himself in a more humble and dutiful way of resignation; nor does he say, I am thus, but, I am thine, not pleading his own good property or qualification, but God's propriety in him: " I am thine, not… Read the whole commentary →