Psalms 119:95
93 I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
94 I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.
96 I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.
97 Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.
- KJV
- The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
- WEB
- The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
- ASV
- The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me; [But] I will consider thy testimonies. MEM.
- DARBY
- The wicked have awaited me to destroy me; [but] I attend unto thy testimonies.
- BLB
- The wicked wait for me to destroy me; Your testimonies I will consider.
- ÅB
- De ugudelige har bidd på meg for å ødelegge meg; jeg gir akt på dine vitnesbyrd.
- OTB
- De onde ligger på lur for å ødelegge meg;
Jeg vil nøye betrakte dine vitnesbyrd. - B1930
- De ugudelige har bidd på mig for å ødelegge mig; jeg gir akt på dine vidnesbyrd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 119:167
I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly.
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I cling to Your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame.
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The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.
Read in contextPsalms 119:69
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
Read in contextActs 23:21
Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
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He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Read in contextActs 25:3
to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
Read in contextPsalms 119:61
Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.
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