Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 119:50
50This is my comfort in my affliction: Your promise has given me life.
Psalms 119:50 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
- New International Version (NIV)My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.
- English Standard Version (ESV)This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
- New King James Version (NKJV)This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.
Context of Psalms 119:50
48I will lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and will meditate on your statutes. 49Remember your word to your servant; you have given me hope through it. This is my comfort in my affliction: Your promise has given me life. 51The arrogant constantly ridicule me, but I do not turn away from your instruction. 52Lord, I remember your judgments from long ago and find comfort.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:50 word by word
זֹ֣את נֶחָמָתִ֣י בְעָנְיִ֑י כִּ֖י אִמְרָתְךָ֣ חִיָּֽתְנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:50
- Psalms 27:13I am certain that I will see the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.
- Psalms 28:7The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart celebrates, and I give thanks to him with my song.
- Psalms 42:8The Lord will send his faithful love by day; his song will be with me in the night — a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 94:19When I am filled with cares, your comfort brings me joy.
- Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart, for I bear your name, Lord God of Armies.
- Romans 5:3And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,
- Romans 15:4For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.
- Hebrews 6:17Because God wanted to show his unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,
- Hebrews 12:11No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
- Psalms 119:25My life is down in the dust; give me life through your word.
- Ezekiel 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me; the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, a vast army.
- John 6:63The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
- James 1:18By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
- 1 Peter 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
- 1 Peter 2:2Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow up into your salvation,
Commentaries on Psalms 119:50
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 50This is my comfort - While enduring our harsh captivity, we anticipated our enlargement; and thy word of promise was the means of keeping our souls alive.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 50This is my comfort in my affliction - Compare Romans 15:4. The word here rendered “comfort” occurs only here and in Job 6:10. The obvious meaning is, that his only consolation in his affliction was derived from the word of God; the word which had caused him to hope, and the word by which he had been quickened or made alive. The particular design of this is to show the value of the word of God as a source of comfort in trouble. For thy word hath quickened…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 49-56Verses 49-56 Those that make God's promises their portion, may with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us, will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in affliction. If, through grace, it makes us holy, there is enough in it to make us easy, in all conditions. Let us be certain we have the Divine law for what we believe, and then let not scoffers prevail upon us to decline from it. God's judgments of old…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 49-56Zayin (ז) is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. The psalmist asks God to remember his word as the psalmist also remembers God’s word and his name. Remembrance expresses devotion.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 49-5149-51. Resting on the promises consoles under affliction and the tauntings of the insolent. upon which--rather, "Remember Thy word unto Thy servant, because," &c. So the Hebrew requires [Hengstenberg].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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