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Psalms 119:50
50When I have trouble, your promise gives me peace in my mind. It makes my life strong again.
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 respect your commands, and I love them. I am always thinking about your laws. 49Remember the word that you have spoken to me, your servant. You have made me put my hope in it. When I have trouble, your promise gives me peace in my mind. It makes my life strong again. 51Proud people laugh at me all the time. But I do not turn away from your Law. 52Lord, I remember the rules that you made long ago. When I do that, I feel happy.
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 27:13But I surely believe that I will see how good the Lord is! I will know his love while I still live in this world.
- Psalms 28:7The Lord makes me strong. He keeps me safe like a shield. I trust in him completely, and he has helped me. I am very happy, and I will thank him with my songs.
- Psalms 42:8Each day, the Lord shows me that he loves me with his faithful love. Each night he gives me a song to sing, as I pray to the God who lives for ever.
- Psalms 94:19When I have troubles in my mind, so that I am afraid, you help me to be happy again.
- Jeremiah 15:16As your words came to me, I took them into me like sweet food. I belong to you, Lord, God Almighty, so your words made me very happy.
- Romans 5:3We are happy even when we have troubles and pain. That is because we know that those troubles help us to become patient and strong.
- Romans 15:4Everything that people wrote in the Bible in past times is there to teach us something. Those words help us to be patient and strong. As a result, we can trust God to do what he has promised.
- Hebrews 6:17God wanted to show very clearly that he would never change his purpose. He wanted his people to know that he would certainly bless them. So when he made this promise, he also used his own name to make it strong.
- Hebrews 12:11Punishment never makes us happy at the time when we receive it. No, the pain makes us sad. But later we know that the punishment has taught us good things. It helps us to live in a right way that gives us peace in our minds.
- Psalms 119:25I have fallen to the ground. I am almost dead. Give me life again, as you have promised to do.
- Ezekiel 37:10So I spoke the message that the Lord had commanded me to speak. Breath went into those dead bodies and they became alive. They stood up on their feet. They were as many as a great army.
- John 6:63It is the Spirit that gives you life. People cannot do that. The words that I have spoken to you come from the Spirit. They give you life.
- James 1:18He chose to make us his children. He used his true message to do that. Because of that, we are like the first special gift that belongs to him from among everything that he has made.
- 1 Peter 1:3We praise God, who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! He is very kind to us, so that he has given us new life. This is possible because God raised Jesus Christ to new life after his death. Now, as we live, we are sure that we will receive good things from God.
- 1 Peter 2:2Instead, you should want to learn about God more and more. New babies always want their mothers' milk, which makes them grow strong. God's true message is like good food that will make you strong in your spirits. Then you will continue to grow as believers so that God saves you.
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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