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Psalms 119:142
142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.
Psalms 119:142 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
- New International Version (NIV)Your righteousness is everlasting and your law is true.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth.
Context of Psalms 119:142
140Your word is very pure (refined); Therefore Your servant loves it. 141I am small and despised, But I do not forget Your precepts. Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your law is truth. 143Trouble and anguish have found me, Yet Your commandments are my delight and my joy. 144Your righteous testimonies are everlasting; Give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart] that I may live.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:142 word by word
צִדְקָתְךָ֣ צֶ֣דֶק לְעוֹלָ֑ם וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ אֱמֶֽת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:142
- Psalms 119:144Your righteous testimonies are everlasting; Give me understanding [the ability to learn and a teachable heart] that I may live.
- Psalms 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgments are like the great deep. O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
- Isaiah 51:6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, Then look to the earth beneath; For the heavens will be torn to pieces and vanish like smoke, And the earth will wear out like a garment And its inhabitants will die in like manner. But My salvation will be forever, And My righteousness (justice) [and faithfully fulfilled promise] will not be broken.
- Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks [of years, or 490 years] have been decreed for your people and for your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make atonement (reconciliation) for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness (right-standing with God), to seal up vision and prophecy and prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- 2 Thessalonians 1:6For after all it is only just for God to repay with distress those who distress you,
- Psalms 119:151You are near, O Lord, And all Your commandments are truth.
- Psalms 19:9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true, they are righteous altogether.
- John 17:17Sanctify them in the truth [set them apart for Your purposes, make them holy]; Your word is truth.
- Ephesians 4:21If in fact you have [really] heard Him and have been taught by Him, just as truth is in Jesus [revealed in His life and personified in Him],
Commentaries on Psalms 119:142
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness - It never changes. The principles of thy law, of thy government, and of thy method of saving people, are the same under all dispensations, in every land, in all worlds; and they will remain the same forever. Human governments change. Old dynasties pass away. New laws are enacted under new administrations. Customs change. Opinions change. People change. The world changes. But as God himself never changes…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 137-144Verses 137-144 God never did, and never can do wrong to any. The promises are faithfully performed by Him that made them. Zeal against sin should constrain us to do what we can against it, at least to do more in religion ourselves. Our love to the word of God is evidence of our love to God, because it is designed to make us partake his holiness. Men's real excellency always makes them low in their own eyes. When we are small and despised, we have the more…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 137-144Tsadhe (צ) is the eighteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. God is righteous, and his word is right and just, especially in contrast to the deceptions of the wicked.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 142-144142-144. The principles of God's government are permanent and reliable, and in the deepest distress His people find them a theme of delightful meditation and a source of reviving power (Psa 119:17, 116). law is the truth--It therefore cannot deceive as to its promises. everlasting--(Psa 111:3), though to outward appearance seeming dead. KOPH. (Psa 119:145-152).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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