Psalms 119:61
59 I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
60 I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.
Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.
62 At midnight I rise to give You thanks for Your righteous judgments.
63 I am a friend to all who fear You, and to those who keep Your precepts.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.
- KJV
- The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
- WEB
- The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
- ASV
- The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; [But] I have not forgotten thy law.
- DARBY
- The bands of the wicked have wrapped me round: I have not forgotten thy law.
- BLB
- The cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Your law I have not forgotten.
- ÅB
- De ugudeliges strikker har omspent meg, din lov har jeg ikke glemt.
- OTB
- De ondes snarer har omringet meg,
Men jeg har ikke glemt din lov. - B1930
- De ugudeliges strikker har omspent mig, din lov har jeg ikke glemt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 12:17–21
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Carefully consider what is right in the eyes of everybody.
Read in contextPsalms 119:176
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
Read in contextHosea 6:9
Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
Read in contextPsalms 140:5
The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
Read in contextProverbs 24:29
Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
Read in contextPsalms 3:1
O LORD, how my foes have increased! How many rise up against me!
Read in contextPsalms 119:95
The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.
Read in context1 Samuel 26:9–11
But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”
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