Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me.I will consider your statutes.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
In Context
94I am yours.Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
96I have seen a limit to all perfection,but your commands are boundless.MEM
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:20Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand."
Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages.From ambushes, he murders the innocent.AYINHis eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
Psalms 37:32The wicked watches the righteous,and seeks to kill him.
Psalms 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight,and my counselors.DALET
Psalms 119:61The ropes of the wicked bind me,but I won't forget your Law.
Psalms 119:85The proud have dug pits for me,contrary to your Law.
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 →