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Psalms 119:153
153Look upon my agony and rescue me, For I do not forget Your law.
Psalms 119:153 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
- New International Version (NIV)Look on my suffering and deliver me, for I have not forgotten your law.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Look on my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget your law.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Consider my affliction and deliver me, For I do not forget Your law.
Context of Psalms 119:153
151You are near, O Lord, And all Your commandments are truth. 152Of old I have known from Your testimonies That You have founded them forever. Look upon my agony and rescue me, For I do not forget Your law. 154Plead my cause and redeem me; Revive me and give me life according to [the promise of] Your word. 155Salvation is far from the wicked, For they do not seek Your statutes.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:153 word by word
רְאֵֽה־עָנְיִ֥י וְחַלְּצֵ֑נִי כִּי־תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:153
- Psalms 119:159Consider how I love Your precepts; Revive me and give me life, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness.
- Psalms 9:13Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord; See how I am afflicted by those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,
- Psalms 13:3Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; Give light (life) to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
- Psalms 25:19Look upon my enemies, for they are many; They hate me with cruel and violent hatred.
- Exodus 3:7The Lord said, “I have in fact seen the affliction (suffering, desolation) of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters (oppressors); for I know their pain and suffering.
- Nehemiah 9:32“Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps the covenant and lovingkindness, Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You, Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people, Since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Lamentations 2:20See, O Lord, and look! With whom have You dealt this way? Should women eat their offspring, The little ones who were born healthy and beautiful? Should priest and prophet be killed In the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 5:1O Lord, remember what has come upon us; Look, and see our reproach (national disgrace)!
- Psalms 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:153
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 153Consider mine affliction - This commences a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Resh (ר r ), corresponding to our “r.” The prayer here is, that God would look upon his trial; that he would regard it as it really was; that he would not turn away from it, or pass it by, as if it were a trifle - a thing not worthy to claim his attention. See the notes at Psalm 9:13. For I do not forget thy law - I endeavor to be obedient, submissive…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 153-160Verses 153-160 The closer we cleave to the word of God, both as our rule and as our stay, the more assurance we have of deliverance. Christ is the Advocate of his people, their Redeemer. Those who were quickened by his Spirit and grace, when they were dead in trespasses and sins, often need to have the work of grace revived in them, according to the word of promise. The wicked not only do not God's statutes, but they do not even seek them. They flatter…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 153-160Resh (ר): This request for life appears throughout Psalm 119, but it is focused in this stanza.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 153-155153-155. Though the remembering of God's law is not meritorious, yet it evinces a filial temper and provides the pious with promises to plead, while the wicked in neglecting His law, reject God and despise His promises (compare Psa 9:13; 43:1; 69:18).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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