Psalms 119:153
Look at me and see that I am suffering very much, and heal me, because I do not forget your laws.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 3:7Then Yahweh said, “I have seen how cruelly they are treating my people in Egypt. I have heard them ◄wailing/crying out► for help because of what the slave-drivers are forcing them to do. I know how my people are suffering.
Psalms 9:13Yahweh, be merciful to me! Look at the ways that my enemies have injured me. Do not allow me to die because of these injuries.
Psalms 25:19Also note that I have many enemies, see that they hate me very much.
Psalms 119:98Because I know ◄your commands/what you have commanded►, and because I think about them all the time, I have become wiser than my enemies.
Psalms 119:141I am not important and people despise me, but I do not forget ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
Psalms 119:176I have wandered away from you like [SIM] a sheep that has become lost; search for me, because I have not forgotten ◄your commands/what you have commanded us►.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:153
152 Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. This confirms what he had said in the close of the foregoing verses, All thy commandments are truth; he means the covenant, the word which God has commanded to a thousand generations. This is firm, as true as truth itself. For, 1. God has founded it so; he has framed it for a perpetuity. Such is the constitution of it, and so well ordered is it in all things, that it cannot but be sure. The promises are founded for ever, so… Read the whole commentary →