Psalms 119:143
Trouble and anguish are come vpon me: yet are thy commandements my delite.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
In Context
142Thy righteousnesse is an euerlasting righteousnes, and thy Lawe is trueth.
144The righteousnes of thy testimonies is euerlasting: graunt me vnderstanding, and I shall liue.
Cross References
Psalms 18:4The sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide.
Psalms 116:3When the snares of death copassed me, and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I founde trouble and sorowe.
Psalms 119:47And my delite shalbe in thy commandements, which I haue loued.
Psalms 119:107I am very sore afflicted: O Lord, quicken me according to thy word.
Mark 14:33And hee tooke with him Peter, and Iames, and Iohn, and hee began to be troubled, and in great heauinesse,
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 →