Psalms 119:120
My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
In Context
119You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross. Therefore I love your testimonies.
121I have done what is just and righteous. Don’t leave me to my oppressors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 6:20The men of Beth Shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?”
2 Samuel 6:9David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, “How could the LORD’s ark come to me?”
1 Chronicles 24:16the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
2 Chronicles 34:21“Go inquire of the LORD for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the LORD’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the LORD’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”
Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Psalms 88:16Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:119-121
118 Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood. 119 Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: therefore I love thy testimonies. 120 My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments. Here is, I. God's judgment on wicked people, on those that wander from his statutes, that take their measures from other rules and will not have God to reign over them. All departure from God's statutes is certainly an error, and will prove a fatal one.… Read the whole commentary →