Psalms 119:114
Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.
King James Version
In Context
113I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
Cross References
Psalms 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
Psalms 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Psalms 119:43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.
Psalms 119:81My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Isaiah 32:2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:114
15. SAMECH. 113 I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. Here we have, 1. David's dread of the risings of sin, and the first beginnings of it: I hate vain thoughts. He does not mean that he hated them in others, for there he could not discern them, but he hated them in his own heart. Every good man makes conscience of his thoughts, for they are words to God. Vain thoughts, how light soever most make of them, are sinful and hurtful, and therefore we should account them hateful and dreadful, for they do not only… Read the whole commentary →