Psalms 119:109
My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
In Context
108Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth. LORD, teach me your ordinances.
110The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:5for he put his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”
Job 13:14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
Psalms 119:83For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.
Psalms 119:152Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.
1 Corinthians 15:31I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:109
108 Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord , and teach me thy judgments. Two things we are here taught to pray for, in reference to our religious performances:—1. Acceptance of them. This we must aim at in all we do in religion, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of the Lord. What David here earnestly prays for the acceptance of are the free-will-offerings, not of his purse, but of his mouth, his prayers and praises. The calves of our lips ( Hos. xiv. 2 ), the fruit of… Read the whole commentary →