Revised Webster's Bible
Psalms 119:153
153Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy 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
151Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. 152Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever. Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154Plead my cause, and deliver me: revive me according to thy word. 155Salvationisfar from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
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רְאֵֽה־עָנְיִ֥י וְחַלְּצֵ֑נִי כִּי־תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 119:153
- Psalms 119:159Consider how I love thy precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
- Psalms 9:13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
- Psalms 13:3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
- Psalms 25:19Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
- Exodus 3:7And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
- Nehemiah 9:32Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Lamentations 2:20Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
- Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
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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