Psalms 119:143
141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
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Compare
- BSB
- Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
- KJV
- Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
- WEB
- Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
- ASV
- Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; [Yet] thy commandments are my delight.
- DARBY
- Trouble and anguish have taken hold upon me: thy commandments are my delights.
- BLB
- Trouble and distress have found me; Your commandments [are] my delight.
- ÅB
- Nød og trengsel fant meg; dine bud er min lyst.
- OTB
- Trengsel og angst har funnet meg,
Likevel gir dine bud meg glede. - B1930
- Nød og trengsel fant mig; dine bud er min lyst.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 23:12
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
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I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
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And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
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And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
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The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
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For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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