Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
In Context
96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Psalms 119:15I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.
Psalms 119:48I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119:127Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
Psalms 119:165Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:97
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Here we have David's testimony from his own experience, 1. Of the vanity of the world and its insufficiency to make us happy: I have seen an end of all perfection. Poor perfection which one sees an end of! Yet such are all those things in this world which pass for perfections. David, in his time, had seen Goliath, the strongest, overcome, Asahel, the swiftest, overtaken, Ahithophel, the wisest, befooled, Absalom, the fairest,… Read the whole commentary →