New International Version
Psalms 119:97
97Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Oh, how I love your instructions! I think about them all day long.
Context of Psalms 119:97
95The wicked are waiting to destroy me, but I will ponder your statutes. 96To all perfection I see a limit, but your commands are boundless. Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. 98Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. 99I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
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 reach out for your commands, which I love, that I may meditate on your decrees.
- Psalms 1:2but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.
- Deuteronomy 6:6These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
- Deuteronomy 17:19It is to be with him, and he is to read it all the days of his life so that he may learn to revere the Lord his God and follow carefully all the words of this law and these decrees
- Joshua 1:8Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
- Proverbs 2:10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
- Proverbs 18:1An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.
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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