Psalms 119:86
All ◄your commands are/what you have commanded is► trustworthy; but people are ◄persecuting/causing trouble for► me by telling lies about me, so please help me!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 7:1Yahweh my God, I come to you to protect me. Rescue me, save me from all those who are pursuing me in order to harm me.
Psalms 35:7Although I did not do anything wrong to them, they concealed a deep pit for me to fall into; they hid a net in which they would catch me.
Psalms 38:19My enemies are healthy and strong; there are many people who hate me for no reason.
Psalms 70:5As for me, I am poor and needy [DOU]; so God, come quickly to help me! Yahweh, you are the one who saves and helps me, so please come quickly!
Psalms 119:78Cause the proud people who falsely accuse me to be ashamed, but as for me, I will continue ◄meditating on/thinking about► ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
Psalms 119:138◄Your requirements/All the things that you have instructed us to do► are true and are all very right and fair.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:86-88
85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. 86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. David's state was herein a type and figure of the state both of Christ and Christians that he was grievously persecuted; as there are many of his psalms, so there are many of the verses of this psalm, which complain of this, as those here. Here observe, I. The account he gives of his… Read the whole commentary →