Psalms 119:143

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.

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  • Job 23:12 : 12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary [food].
  • Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
  • Ps 88:3-9 : 3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. 4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man [that hath] no strength: 5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah. 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth. 9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee. 10 ¶ Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise [and] praise thee? Selah. 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee. 14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? [why] hidest thou thy face from me? 15 I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. 17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. 18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
  • Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
  • Ps 119:77 : 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law [is] my delight.
  • Ps 119:107 : 107 ¶ I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
  • Ps 130:1 : 1 ¶ A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.
  • Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, ‹My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.›
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, ‹My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.›

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    47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

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    172¶ My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments [are] righteousness.

    173¶ Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

    174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law [is] my delight.

  • Ps 119:34-35
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    34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.

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  • Ps 119:76-77
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    76¶ Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

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    92¶ Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

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    144The righteousness of thy testimonies [is] everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

  • Ps 119:141-142
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    141¶ I [am] small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts.

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  • Ps 119:50
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    50¶ This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

  • Ps 119:10-11
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    10¶ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

    11¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

  • Ps 119:66-67
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    66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

    67¶ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

  • Ps 119:131
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    131¶ I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

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    153¶ RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

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    86All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

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    40¶ Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

  • Ps 119:43
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    43¶ And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

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    127¶ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

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    159¶ Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

  • Ps 119:166-167
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    166¶ LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

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  • Ps 31:7
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  • Ps 119:16
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    16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

  • Ps 119:19-20
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    19¶ I [am] a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

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  • Ps 119:110-111
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    110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

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  • Ps 119:107
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    107¶ I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

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    71¶ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

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    24¶ Thy testimonies also [are] my delight [and] my counsellors.

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    28¶ My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

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    97¶ MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.

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  • Ps 119:161-162
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    161¶ SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

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    14I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as [much as] in all riches.

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    146I cried unto thee; save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.