Psalms 119:52
Yahweh, when I think about ◄your regulations/the rules► that you gave to us long ago, I am comforted/encouraged.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
In Context
51Proud people are always making fun of me, but I do not ◄turn away from/stop► obeying your laws.
53When I see that wicked people have disregarded your laws, I become very angry.
Cross References
Exodus 14:29But we Israeli people had already crossed through the sea by walking on dry ground, with the water being like two walls, one on the right side and one on the left side.
Deuteronomy 1:35‘Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, will enter the land. He has obeyed me completely. So I will give to him and to his descendants some of the land that he explored. He is the only one of all you people who will enter that land. None of these evil people will ever see that good land which I solemnly promised to give to your ancestors.’
Psalms 77:5I think about days that have passed; I remember what happened in previous years.
Psalms 77:12I meditate on all that you have done, and I think about your mighty acts.
Psalms 105:5You people who are descendants of God’s servant Abraham, you descendants of Jacob, the man God chose, think about all the wonderful things that he has done: He performed miracles, and he punished all our enemies.
2 Peter 2:4God destroyed [LIT] the angels who sinned. He threw them into the worst place in hell and imprisoned them there in darkness in order to keep them there until he judges and punishes them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:52
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law. David here tells us, and it will be of use to us to know it, 1. That he had been jeered for his religion. Though he was a man of honour, a man of great prudence, and had done eminent services to his country, yet, because he was a devout conscientious man, the proud had him greatly in derision; they ridiculed him, bantered him, and did all they could to expose him to contempt; they laughed at him for his praying, and called it cant,… Read the whole commentary →