Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
In Context
94I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:20Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”
Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psalms 37:32The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
Psalms 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
Psalms 119:61The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
Psalms 119:85The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
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 →