Psalms 119:54
Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
In Context
53Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.
55I have remembered your name, LORD, in the night, and I obey your law.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Psalms 89:1I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:54
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Here is, 1. The character of wicked people; he means those that are openly and grossly wicked: They forsake thy law. Every sin is a transgression of the law, but a course and way of wilful and avowed sin is downright forsaking it and throwing it off. 2. The impression which the wickedness of the wicked made upon David; it frightened him, it put him into an amazement. He trembled to think of the dishonour thereby done to God, the… Read the whole commentary →