Psalms 119:95
The wicked haue waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
In Context
94I am thine, saue me: for I haue sought thy precepts.
96I haue seene an ende of all perfection: but thy commandement is exceeding large.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:20Nowe therefore, O King, come downe according to all that thine heart can desire, and our part shall be to deliuer him into the Kinges handes.
Psalms 10:8He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.
Psalms 37:32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Psalms 119:24Also thy testimonies are my delite, and my counsellers.
Psalms 119:61The bandes of the wicked haue robbed me: but I haue not forgotten thy Lawe.
Psalms 119:85The proude haue digged pittes for mee, which is not after thy Lawe.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:95
94 I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts. Here, 1. David claims relation to God: " I am thine, devoted to thee and owned by thee, thine in covenant." He does not say, Thou art mine (as Dr. Manton observes), though that follows of course, because that were a higher challenge; but, I am thine, expressing himself in a more humble and dutiful way of resignation; nor does he say, I am thus, but, I am thine, not pleading his own good property or qualification, but God's propriety in him: " I am thine, not… Read the whole commentary →