Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
In Context
154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
156Great are your tender mercies, LORD. Revive me according to your ordinances.
Cross References
Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Psalms 18:27For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
Isaiah 46:12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!
Isaiah 59:11We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Romans 3:11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:154-155
20. RESH. 153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Here, I. David prays for succour in distress. Is any afflicted? let him pray; let him pray as David does here. 1. He has an eye to God's pity, and prays, " Consider my affliction; take it into thy thoughts, and all the circumstances of it, and sit not by as one unconcerned." God is never unmindful of his people's afflictions, but he will have us to put him in… Read the whole commentary →