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Psalms 119:153
153Look at my pain and trouble! Please save me, because 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
151Lord, you are near to me, and I can trust all your commands. 152I have studied your teaching since long ago. I know that you have made it to remain for ever. Look at my pain and trouble! Please save me, because I do not forget your Law. 154Stand with me and make me free. Keep me safe, as you have promised to do. 155Wicked people do not obey your rules, so their lives will never be safe.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:153 word by word
רְאֵֽה־עָנְיִ֥י וְחַלְּצֵ֑נִי כִּי־תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:153
- Psalms 119:159See how I love your teaching, Lord! Please keep my life safe, because of your faithful love for your people.
- Psalms 9:13How my enemies cause me to suffer! Please be kind to me, Lord. You are the one who can save me from death.
- Psalms 13:3Lord, please listen to me! I feel that I am nearly dead. Please give me the strength to live!
- Psalms 25:19Look at all my enemies! There are very many of them! They hate me so much that they want to hurt me.
- Exodus 3:7The Lord said, ‘I have certainly seen the troubles of my people in Egypt. I have heard them when they cry for help because of their cruel masters. I know that they are very sad.
- Nehemiah 9:32So we pray to you, our God. You are great and powerful. You continue to love your people as you have promised in your covenant with us. Please see how much trouble has come to us! Our kings, our leaders, our priests, our prophets and our ancestors and your people all belong to you. We have all had many great troubles since the time that the kings of Assyria attacked us.
- Lamentations 2:20‘Look at us, Lord,’ you should say. ‘You have done all this to your people. Women eat their own children now! They eat the children that they took care of. People have killed your own priests and prophets in your holy house!
- Lamentations 5:1Lord, please remember the trouble that has happened to us. Look at us, because we are ashamed.
- Psalms 119:16Your laws make me very happy. I will not forget what you have taught me.
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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