Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 119:153
153Consider my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your instruction.
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, Lord, and all your commands are true. 152Long ago I learned from your decrees that you have established them forever. Consider my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your instruction. 154Champion my cause and redeem me; give me life as you promised. 155Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not study 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; Lord, give me life according to your faithful love.
- Psalms 9:13Be gracious to me, Lord; consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me. Lift me up from the gates of death,
- Psalms 13:3Consider me and answer, Lord my God. Restore brightness to my eyes; otherwise, I will sleep in death.
- Psalms 25:19Consider my enemies; they are numerous, and they hate me violently.
- Exodus 3:7Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. I know about their sufferings,
- Nehemiah 9:32So now, our God — the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God who keeps his gracious covenant — do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us, our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the Assyrian kings until today.
- Lamentations 2:20Lord, look and consider to whom you have done this. Should women eat their own children, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
- Lamentations 5:1Lord, remember what has happened to us. Look, and see our 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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