Psalms 119:143 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴³Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

Psalms 119:143 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 23:12
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Psalms 119:107
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
Psalms 116:3
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Psalms 88:3-18
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. …
Mark 14:33-34
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 143-144)

These two verses are almost a repetition of the two foregoing verses, but with improvement. 1. David again professes his constant adherence to God and his duty, notwithstanding the many difficulties and discouragements he met with. He had said (Ps. 119:141), I am small and despised, and yet adhere to my duty. Here he finds himself not only mean, but miserable, as far as this world could make him s…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 143)

142-144. The principles of God’s government are permanent and reliable, and in the deepest distress His people find them a theme of delightful meditation and a source of reviving power (Psa 119:17, 116). law is the truth--It therefore cannot deceive as to its promises. everlasting--(Psa 111:3), though to outward appearance seeming dead. KOPH. (Psa 119:145-152).