Psalms 119:70
68 You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.
69 Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
71 It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
72 The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
- KJV
- Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
- WEB
- Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.
- ASV
- Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law.
- DARBY
- Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.
- BLB
- Their heart is unfeeling like fat; I have delighted in Your law.
- ÅB
- Deres hjerte er som en fettklump; jeg har min lyst i din lov.
- OTB
- Deres hjerte er følelsesløst, som herdet fett,
Men jeg gleder meg i din lov. - B1930
- Deres hjerte er som en fettklump; jeg har min lyst i din lov.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 17:10
They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
Read in contextActs 28:27
For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
Read in contextPsalms 73:7
From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
Read in contextIsaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
Read in contextPsalms 119:16
I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
Read in contextRomans 7:22
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
Read in contextPsalms 119:35
Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
Read in contextPsalms 40:8
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
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