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24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
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Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. …
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24)Here David explains his meditating in God’s statutes (Ps. 119:23), which was of such use to him when princes sat and spoke against him. 1. Did the affliction make his sad? The word of God comforted him, and was his delight , more his delight than any of the pleasures either of court or camp, of city or country. Sometimes it proves that the comforts of the word of God are most pleasant to a graciou…
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