Psalms 119:95
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me; but I will consider thy testimonies.
Revised Version 1895
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, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
96I have seen an end of all perfection; but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:20Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.
Psalms 10:8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the covert places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the helpless.
Psalms 37:32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
Psalms 119:24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Psalms 119:61The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; but I have not forgotten thy law.
Psalms 119:85The proud have digged pits for me, who are not after thy 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 →