Psalms 119:142
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
In Context
141I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.
143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
Cross References
Psalms 19:9The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The LORD’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
Psalms 119:144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
Psalms 119:160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
Isaiah 51:8For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”
John 17:17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
2 Thessalonians 1:6For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:142
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. Here is, 1. David pious and yet poor. He was a man after God's own heart, one whom the King of kings did delight to honour, and yet small and despised in his own account and in the account of many others. Men's excellency cannot always secure them from contempt; nay, it often exposes them to the scorn of others and always makes them low in their own eyes. God has chosen the foolish things of the world, and it has been the common lot of his people to be… Read the whole commentary →