Psalms 119:97
[Mem.] O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it [is] my meditation.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
In Context
96Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad [is] Thy command — exceedingly!
98Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it [is] before me to the age.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:6and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart,
Joshua 1:8the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.
Psalms 119:15In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.
Psalms 119:48And I lift up my hands unto Thy commands, That I have loved, And I do meditate on Thy statutes!
Psalms 119:127Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold — even fine gold.
Psalms 119:165Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:97
96 I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Here we have David's testimony from his own experience, 1. Of the vanity of the world and its insufficiency to make us happy: I have seen an end of all perfection. Poor perfection which one sees an end of! Yet such are all those things in this world which pass for perfections. David, in his time, had seen Goliath, the strongest, overcome, Asahel, the swiftest, overtaken, Ahithophel, the wisest, befooled, Absalom, the fairest,… Read the whole commentary →