Psalms 119:114
You are like a place where I can hide from my enemies, and you are like a shield [MET] behind which I am protected from them, and I trust in your promises.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
In Context
113I hate people who are only partly committed to you, but I love your laws.
Cross References
Psalms 3:4I cry out to you, Yahweh, and you answer me from Zion, your sacred hill. (Think about that!)
Psalms 84:11Yahweh our God is like the sun that shines on us and like a shield that protects us [MET]; he is kind to us and honors us. Yahweh does not refuse to give any good thing/blessing to those who do what is right.
Psalms 119:43Always enable me to [LIT] speak your truth, because I have confidence in ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given us►.
Psalms 119:81I am very tired/exhausted while I wait for you to save me from my enemies; but I confidently expect that you will tell me what you will do.
Isaiah 32:2Each of them will be like [MET] a shelter from the wind and a ◄refuge/place to be protected► from the storm. They will be like [SIM] streams of water in the desert, like the shade under a huge rock in a very hot and dry land.
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 →