Psalms 119:95
Thy wicked waited for me to destroy me, Thy testimonies I understand.
Young's Literal Translation
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 Thou me, For Thy precepts I have sought.
96Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad [is] Thy command — exceedingly!
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:20And, now, by all the desire of thy soul, O king, to come down, come down, and ours [is] to shut him up into the hand of the king.'
Psalms 10:8He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,
Psalms 37:32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.
Psalms 119:24Thy testimonies also [are] my delight, The men of my counsel!
Psalms 119:61Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Thy law I have not forgotten.
Psalms 119:85The proud have digged for me pits, That [are] not according to 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 →