Psalms 119:54
Songs, have thy statutes become to me, in my house of sojourn.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
In Context
53A raging heat, hath seized me, by reason of the lawless, who forsake thy law.
55I have remembered, in the night, thy Name, O Yahweh, and have kept thy law.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years,—Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.
Psalms 89:1The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, age-abidingly will I sing, To generation after generation, will I make known thy faithfulness with my mouth.
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 →