Psalms 119:109
107 I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.
108 Accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Your judgments.
I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.
110 The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from Your precepts.
111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I constantly take my life in my hands, yet I do not forget Your law.
- KJV
- My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
- WEB
- My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.
- ASV
- My soul is continually in my hand; Yet do I not forget thy law.
- DARBY
- My life is continually in my hand; but I do not forget thy law.
- BLB
- My soul [is] in my hand continually, and I do not forget Your law.
- ÅB
- Jeg går alltid med livet i hendene, men din lov har jeg ikke glemt.
- OTB
- Mitt liv er stadig i min hånd,
Likevel glemmer jeg ikke din lov. - B1930
- Jeg går alltid med livet i hendene, men din lov har jeg ikke glemt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 12:3
When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”
Read in contextJob 13:14
Why do I put myself at risk and take my life in my own hands?
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:31
I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Read in context1 Samuel 19:5
He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”
Read in context1 Samuel 20:3
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
Read in contextPsalms 119:83
Though I am like a wineskin dried up by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.
Read in contextPsalms 119:152
Long ago I learned from Your testimonies that You have established them forever.
Read in context2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.
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