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.›

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 47 And 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.

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

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

    35 ¶ Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.

  • 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.

    77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law [is] my delight.

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

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

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    141 ¶ I [am] small and despised: [yet] do not I forget thy precepts.

    142 ¶ Thy righteousness [is] an everlasting righteousness, and thy law [is] the truth.

  • 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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    66 Teach 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    166 ¶ LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

    167 ¶ My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

  • 7 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

  • 16 I 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.

    20 ¶ My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] unto thy judgments at all times.

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    110 The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

    111 ¶ Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they [are] the rejoicing of my heart.

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

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

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

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    133 ¶ Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

    134 ¶ Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

  • 53 ¶ Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

  • 157 ¶ Many [are] my persecutors and mine enemies; [yet] do I not decline from thy testimonies.

  • 129 ¶ PE. Thy testimonies [are] wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

  • Ps 119:94-95
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    94 ¶ I [am] thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

    95 ¶ The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy testimonies.

  • 19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

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

  • Ps 119:97-98
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    97 ¶ MEM. O how love I thy law! it [is] my meditation all the day.

    98 ¶ Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they [are] ever with me.

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

    162 ¶ I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

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

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