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Psalms 119:86
86All Your mitzvot are faithful. They persecute me with a lie—help me!
Psalms 119:86 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
- New International Version (NIV)All your commands are trustworthy; help me, for I am being persecuted without cause.
- English Standard Version (ESV)All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me!
- New King James Version (NKJV)All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; Help me!
Context of Psalms 119:86
84How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors? 85The proud have dug pits for me— that is not in accord with Your Torah! All Your mitzvot are faithful. They persecute me with a lie—help me! 87They almost finished me off on earth. But I—I will not forsake Your precepts. 88Revive me with Your lovingkindness, so I may keep Your mouth’s testimony.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:86 word by word
כָּל־מִצְוֹתֶ֥יךָ אֱמוּנָ֑ה שֶׁ֖קֶר רְדָפ֣וּנִי עָזְרֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:86
- Psalms 119:128Therefore I esteem all Your precepts as right in every way —every false way I hate.
- Psalms 19:9The precepts of Adonai are right, giving joy to the heart. The mitzvot of Adonai are pure, giving light to the eyes.
- Romans 7:12So then, the Torah is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
- Psalms 119:78May the proud be put to shame for wronging me with a lie, but I will meditate on Your precepts.
- Psalms 7:1A passionate song of David, which he sang to Adonai concerning Cush, a Benjamite.
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they hid their net for me, and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
- Psalms 38:19So I confess my guilt. I am troubled because of my sin.
- Psalms 59:3Deliver me from workers of iniquity. Rescue me from bloodthirsty men.
- Jeremiah 18:20Will good be repaid for evil? For they dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
- Psalms 70:5But may all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. May those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified.”
- Psalms 142:4When my spirit grows faint within me, You know my path. In the way where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
- Psalms 143:9Deliver me from my enemies, Adonai. I hide myself in You.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:86
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 86All thy commandments are faithful - Margin, “faithfulness.” The idea in the Hebrew is that they are worthy to be relied on. They are founded in truth, and they should secure our confidence. They persecute me wrongfully - Hebrew, a “lie, “or “falsehood.” That is, There is a “lie” or “falsehood” at the foundation of their persecutions. Those persecutions are not based on any just views of what I am, or of the treatment which I ought to receive at the hand…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 81-88Verses 81-88 The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet faith must not. His affliction was great. He was become like a leathern bottle, which, if hung up in the smoke, is dried and shrivelled up. We must ever be mindful of God's statutes. The days of the believer's mourning shall be ended; they are but for a…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 85-88God's word is trustworthy. This contrasts with the lies of the enemies who hunt the psalmist without reason (see Psalm 119:78).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 84-8784-87. The shortness of my life requires that the relief afforded to me from mine enemies should be speedy.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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