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

Psalms 119:166

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

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

  • CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.

  • Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

  • I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 166)

Here is the whole duty of man; for we are taught, 1. To keep our eye upon God’s favour as our end: “ Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation , not only temporal but eternal salvation. I have hoped for that as my happiness and laid up my treasure in it; I have hoped for it as thine, as a happiness of thy preparing, thy promising, and which consists in being with thee. Hope of this has raised me above…

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