Psalms 119:57
You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
In Context
56This I had, because I kept your precepts.
58I implored your favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to your word.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 26:17You have stand as a witness to the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
Joshua 24:18And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
Joshua 24:24And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Psalms 16:5The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.
Psalms 73:26My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms 119:106I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:56-57
55 I have remembered thy name, O Lord , in the night, and have kept thy law. 56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts. Here is, 1. The converse David had with the word of God; he kept it in mind, and upon every occasion he called it to mind. God's name is the discovery he has made of himself to us in and by his word. This is his memorial unto all generations, and therefore we should always keep it in memory—remember it in the night, upon a waking bed, when we are communing with our own hearts. When others were… Read the whole commentary →