God’s Word Translation
Psalms 119:50
50This is my comfort in my misery: Your promise gave me a new 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 lift my hands ⌞in prayer⌟ because of your commandments, which I love. I will reflect on your laws. 49Remember the word ⌞you gave⌟ me. Through it you gave me hope. This is my comfort in my misery: Your promise gave me a new life. 51Arrogant people have mocked me with cruelty, yet I have not turned away from your teachings. 52I remembered your regulations from long ago, O Lord, and I found comfort ⌞in them⌟.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:50 word by word
זֹ֣את נֶחָמָתִ֣י בְעָנְיִ֑י כִּ֖י אִמְרָתְךָ֣ חִיָּֽתְנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:50
- Psalms 27:13I believe that I will see the goodness of the Lord in this world of the living.
- Psalms 28:7The Lord is my strength and my shield. My heart trusted him, so I received help. My heart is triumphant; I give thanks to him with my song.
- Psalms 42:8The Lord commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.
- Psalms 94:19When I worried about many things, your assuring words soothed my soul.
- Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I devoured them. Your words are my joy and my heart’s delight, because I am called by your name, O Lord God of Armies.
- Romans 5:3But that’s not all. We also brag when we are suffering. We know that suffering creates endurance,
- Romans 15:4Everything written long ago was written to teach us so that we would have confidence through the endurance and encouragement which the Scriptures give us.
- Hebrews 6:17God wouldn’t change his plan. He wanted to make this perfectly clear to those who would receive his promise, so he took an oath.
- Hebrews 12:11We don’t enjoy being disciplined. It always seems to cause more pain than joy. But later on, those who learn from that discipline have peace that comes from doing what is right.
- Psalms 119:25I am close to death. Give me a new life as you promised.
- Ezekiel 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath entered them. Then they came to life and stood on their feet. There were enough of them to form a very large army.
- John 6:63Life is spiritual. Your physical existence doesn’t contribute to that life. The words that I have spoken to you are spiritual. They are life.
- James 1:18God decided to give us life through the word of truth to make us his most important creatures.
- 1 Peter 1:3Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! God has given us a new birth because of his great mercy. We have been born into a new life that has a confidence which is alive because Jesus Christ has come back to life.
- 1 Peter 2:2Desire God’s pure word as newborn babies desire milk. Then you will grow in 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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