Psalms 119:140
◄Your promises are/All the things that you have said that you will do are► dependable and I love them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
In Context
139I am ◄furious/very angry► because my enemies disregard ◄your words/what you have told us to do►.
Cross References
Psalms 12:6Yahweh, you always do what you have promised to do; what you have promised is as precious and pure as silver that has been heated seven times in a furnace to get rid of all the impure material.
Psalms 18:30Everything that Yahweh my God does is perfect. We can depend on him to do what he promises. He is like a shield [MET] to protect all those who go to him for refuge.
Psalms 119:47I am delighted to obey ◄your commands/what you have commanded►, and I love them.
Proverbs 30:5Everything that God has said is true; he is like a shield [MET] for all those who request him to protect them.
Romans 7:16Since I do the evil things that I do not want to do, I agree that the laws of God are good.
1 Peter 2:2Just like newborn babies long for their mothers’ pure milk [MET], you should long for God’s spiritual truth, so that by learning it you may become spiritually mature. You need to do this until the day when God will free you completely from all the evil in this world.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:140
139 My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Here is, 1. The great contempt which wicked men put upon religion: My enemies have forgotten thy words. They have often heard them, but so little did they heed them that they soon forgot them, they willingly forgot them, not only through carelessness let them slip out of their minds, but contrived how to cast them behind their backs. This is at the bottom of all the wickedness of the wicked, and particularly of their malignity and enmity… Read the whole commentary →