Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 119:97
97How I love your instruction! It is my meditation all day long.
Psalms 119:97 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- New International Version (NIV)Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.
Context of Psalms 119:97
95The wicked hope to destroy me, but I contemplate your decrees. 96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your command is without limit. How I love your instruction! It is my meditation all day long. 98Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me. 99I have more insight than all my teachers because your decrees are my meditation.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:97 word by word
מָֽה־אָהַ֥בְתִּי תוֹרָתֶ֑ךָ כָּל־הַ֝יּ֗וֹם הִ֣יא שִׂיחָתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:97
- Psalms 119:48I will lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and will meditate on your statutes.
- Psalms 1:2Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.
- Deuteronomy 6:6These words that I am giving you today are to be in your heart.
- Deuteronomy 17:19It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.
- Joshua 1:8This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to meditate on it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.
- Proverbs 2:10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight you.
- Proverbs 18:1One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound wisdom.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:97
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 97O how love I thy law - This is one of the strongest marks of a gracious and pious heart, cast in the mould of obedience. Such love the precepts of Christ: in his commandments they delight; and this delight is shown by their making them frequent subjects of their meditation.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 97O how love I thy law! - This commences a new division of the Psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Mem (מ m The expression here, “O how love I thy law,” implies intense love - as if a man were astonished at the fervour of his own emotion. His love was so ardent that it was amazing and wonderful to himself - perhaps wonderful that he, a sinner, should love the law of God at all; wonderful that he should ever have been brought so to love a law which…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 97-104Verses 97-104 What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in his heart. By meditation on God's testimonies we understand more than our teachers, when we understand our own hearts. The written word is a more sure guide to heaven, than all the fathers, the teachers, and ancients of the church. We cannot, with any comfort or boldness, attend God in holy…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 97-102make me wiser: God’s word provides wisdom and perspective. God is the true source of wisdom.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9797. This characteristic love for God's law (compare Psa 1:2) ensures increase.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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