Psalms 119:86
All thy commandments, are faithful, With falsehood, have they persecuted me, O help me!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
In Context
85Insolent men digged for me pits, men who are not according to thy law.
87A little more, and they had consumed me in the earth, but, I, forsake not thy precepts.
Cross References
Psalms 7:1O Yahweh my God, in thee, have I sought refuge,—Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me:
Psalms 35:7For, without cause, have they hid for me, in a ditch, their net,—Without cause, have they digged [a pit] for my life.
Psalms 38:19And, my foes, are alive—have become strong,—and multiplied are they who hate me for false cause:
Psalms 70:5But, I, being humbled and needy, O God, haste to me,—My help and my deliverer, art thou, O Yahweh do not tarry.
Psalms 119:78Let insolent men, be ashamed, because, by means of falsehood, they have dealt with me perversely, I, will meditate in thy precepts.
Psalms 119:138Thou hast righteously commanded thy testimonies, yea in great faithfulness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:86-88
85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. 86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. David's state was herein a type and figure of the state both of Christ and Christians that he was grievously persecuted; as there are many of his psalms, so there are many of the verses of this psalm, which complain of this, as those here. Here observe, I. The account he gives of his… Read the whole commentary →