Psalms 119:93
I will never forget ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►, because as a result of my obeying them you have enabled me to continue to live.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
In Context
92If I had not been delighted in obeying your laws, I would have died because of what I was suffering.
Cross References
Psalms 119:16I will be happy to obey ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►, and I will not forget your words.
Psalms 119:50When I have been suffering, you comforted me; you did what you promised me, and that [PRS] revived me.
1 Peter 1:23I ask you to do this, because you now have a new life [MET]. It was not by means of something that will perish that you received this new life. Instead, it was by means of something that will last forever; that is, by believing the life-giving and enduring message of God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:93
92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. Here is, 1. The great distress that David was in. He was in affliction, and ready to perish in his affliction, not likely to die, so much as likely to despair; he was ready to give up all for gone, and to look upon himself as cut off from God's sight; he therefore admires the goodness of God to him, that he had not perished, that he kept the possession of his own soul, and was not driven out of his wits by his troubles, but… Read the whole commentary →