Psalms 119:54
While I have been living here for a short time on the earth, I have written songs about ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
In Context
53When I see that wicked people have disregarded your laws, I become very angry.
55Yahweh, during the night I think about you [MTY], and so I obey your laws.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9Jacob replied, “I have been traveling around for 130 years. I have not lived as long as my ancestors, but my life has been full of troubles.”
Psalms 89:1Yahweh, I will sing forever about the ways you faithfully love me; people not yet born will hear that you faithfully do all that you have promised.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:54
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Here is, 1. The character of wicked people; he means those that are openly and grossly wicked: They forsake thy law. Every sin is a transgression of the law, but a course and way of wilful and avowed sin is downright forsaking it and throwing it off. 2. The impression which the wickedness of the wicked made upon David; it frightened him, it put him into an amazement. He trembled to think of the dishonour thereby done to God, the… Read the whole commentary →