Psalms 119:54
Thy statutes haue beene my songes in the house of my pilgrimage.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
In Context
53Feare is come vpon mee for the wicked, that forsake thy Lawe.
55I haue remembred thy Name, O Lord, in the night, and haue kept thy Lawe.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth and thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.
Psalms 89:1A Psalme to give instruction, of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing the mercies of the Lord for euer: with my mouth will I declare thy trueth from generation to generation.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:54
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Here is, 1. The character of wicked people; he means those that are openly and grossly wicked: They forsake thy law. Every sin is a transgression of the law, but a course and way of wilful and avowed sin is downright forsaking it and throwing it off. 2. The impression which the wickedness of the wicked made upon David; it frightened him, it put him into an amazement. He trembled to think of the dishonour thereby done to God, the… Read the whole commentary →