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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:50 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 119:50 |
King James |
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
for--rather, "This is my comfort . . . that," &c. [MAURER].
hath quickened--What the Word has already done is to faith a pledge of what it shall yet do. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
This is my comfort in my affliction - Compare Rom 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 me - Has made me alive; or, caused me to live. That is, the word, the truth of God, had been the instrument of calling him from the death of sin, and of imparting to him new life, or had been the means of his regeneration. Compare Jam 1:18; Co1 4:15; Heb 4:12; Pe1 1:23. As it was by this "word" that he had been made alive, so his only comfort was in that word, and it was to him a just ground of consolation that God had brought him from the death of sin, and had imparted to him spiritual life. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| This 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. |
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
15 For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.