Psalms 119:142
You are righteous and you will be righteous forever, and your laws will never be changed.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 19:9It is good for people to revere Yahweh; that is something that they will do forever. What Yahweh has decided is fair, and it is always right.
Psalms 119:144◄Your requirements are/All the things that you have instructed us to do are► always fair; help me to understand them in order that I may continue to live.
Psalms 119:160All that you have said is truth, and all ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us► will endure forever.
Isaiah 51:8because some day they will be destroyed like [MET] clothing that is eaten by ◄ larvae of moths/cockroaches►, like wool garments that have been eaten by worms. I will save you people, and you will be saved forever.”
John 17:17Set my disciples apart so that they may ◄completely belong to/serve► you, by enabling them to live in accordance with what is true. Your message is true.
2 Thessalonians 1:6God will certainly cause trouble for those people who are troubling you, because he considers that it is just that he should punish such people for doing that to 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 →