Psalms 119:95
Wicked men are waiting to kill me, but I will think about what you have instructed us to do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:20So, O king, come down there any time that you want to. It is our duty to capture him and turn him over to you.”
Psalms 10:8They hide in villages, ready to ◄ambush/suddenly attack► and kill people who ◄are innocent/have done nothing wrong►. They constantly search for people who will not be able to ◄resist/defend themselves► when they are attacked.
Psalms 37:32Those who are evil wait in ambush for righteous people in order to kill them as they walk by.
Psalms 119:24I am delighted with ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►; it is as though they are my advisors.
Psalms 119:61Wicked people have tried to seize me, like a hunter tries to catch an animal with a net [MET], but I do not forget your laws.
Psalms 119:85It is as though proud people have dug deep pits for me to fall into, people who do not obey your laws.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:95
94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. Here, 1. David claims relation to God: " I am thine, devoted to thee and owned by thee, thine in covenant." He does not say, Thou art mine (as Dr. Manton observes), though that follows of course, because that were a higher challenge; but, I am thine, expressing himself in a more humble and dutiful way of resignation; nor does he say, I am thus, but, I am thine, not pleading his own good property or qualification, but God's propriety in him: " I am thine, not… Read the whole commentary →