Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
In Context
142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
Cross References
Psalms 18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Psalms 116:3The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Psalms 119:107I am afflicted very much. Revive me, LORD, according to your word.
Mark 14:33He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:143
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Observe, 1. That God's word is righteousness, and it is an everlasting righteousness. It is the rule of God's judgment, and it is consonant to his counsels from eternity and will direct his sentence for eternity. The word of God will judge us, it will judge us in righteousness, and by it our everlasting state will be determined. This should possess us with a very great reverence for the word of God that it is righteousness itself, the… Read the whole commentary →