New Living Translation
Psalms 119:143
143As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands.
Psalms 119:143 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
- New International Version (NIV)Trouble and distress have come upon me, but your commands give me delight.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, Yet Your commandments are my delights.
Context of Psalms 119:143
141I am insignificant and despised, but I don’t forget your commandments. 142Your justice is eternal, and your instructions are perfectly true. As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands. 144Your laws are always right; help me to understand them so I may live. 145I pray with all my heart; answer me, Lord! I will obey your decrees.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:143 word by word
צַר־וּמָצ֥וֹק מְצָא֑וּנִי מִ֝צְוֹתֶ֗יךָ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:143
- Psalms 119:107I have suffered much, O Lord; restore my life again as you promised.
- Psalms 18:4The ropes of death entangled me; floods of destruction swept over me.
- Psalms 88:3For my life is full of troubles, and death draws near.
- Psalms 116:3Death wrapped its ropes around me; the terrors of the grave overtook me. I saw only trouble and sorrow.
- Psalms 130:1From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help.
- Mark 14:33He took Peter, James, and John with him, and he became deeply troubled and distressed.
- Psalms 119:16I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word.
- Job 23:12I have not departed from his commands, but have treasured his words more than daily food.
- John 4:34Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:143
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 143Trouble and anguish - The word rendered “trouble” means affliction of any kind; the word rendered “anguish” would probably express that which results from being pressed, compressed, straitened. It properly refers to a situation where there is no room to move, and where we are pent up in a narrow place. The two words denote deep affliction. Have taken hold on me - Margin, as in Hebrew, “found me.” That is, they were in pursuit of me, and have at last…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 137-144Verses 137-144 God never did, and never can do wrong to any. The promises are faithfully performed by Him that made them. Zeal against sin should constrain us to do what we can against it, at least to do more in religion ourselves. Our love to the word of God is evidence of our love to God, because it is designed to make us partake his holiness. Men's real excellency always makes them low in their own eyes. When we are small and despised, we have the more…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 137-144Tsadhe (צ) is the eighteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. God is righteous, and his word is right and just, especially in contrast to the deceptions of the wicked.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 142-144142-144. The principles of God's government are permanent and reliable, and in the deepest distress His people find them a theme of delightful meditation and a source of reviving power (Psa 119:17, 116). law is the truth--It therefore cannot deceive as to its promises. everlasting--(Psa 111:3), though to outward appearance seeming dead. KOPH. (Psa 119:145-152).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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