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56This I had, because I kept thy precepts.

Psalms 119:56

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  • Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

  • And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. …

  • They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 55-56)

Here is, 1. The converse David had with the word of God; he kept it in mind, and upon every occasion he called it to mind. God’s name is the discovery he has made of himself to us in and by his word. This is his memorial unto all generations , and therefore we should always keep it in memory—remember it in the night , upon a waking bed, when we are communing with our own hearts. When others were s…

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