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97MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
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.
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 97)Here is, 1. David’s inexpressible love to the word of God: O how love I thy law ! He protests his affection to the word of God with a holy vehemency; he found that love to it in his heart which, considering the corruption of his nature and the temptations of the world, he could not but wonder at, and at that grace which had wrought it in him. He not only loved the promises, but loved the law, and…
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