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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:92 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ps 119:92 |
King James |
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Hence the pious are encouraged and inclined to seek a knowledge of it, and persevere amidst the efforts of those planning and waiting to destroy them.
my delights--plural, not merely delight, but equal to all other delights. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Unless thy law had been my delights - See Psa 119:16, note; Psa 119:24, note. Unless I had had pleasure in thy law, thy word, thy truth; unless I had derived support and consolation in that.
I should then have perished in mine affliction - I should have sunk under my burden. I should not have been able to hold up under the weight of sorrow and trial. How often the people of God can say. this! How often may each one in the course of his life say this! "I should have sunk a thousand times," said a most excellent, but much afflicted, man to me, "if it had not been for one declaration in the word of God - 'The Eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.'" |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Unless thy law had been my delights - Had we not had the consolations of religion, we should long ago have died of a broken heart. |
24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.