Psalms 119:155 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not thy statutes.

WEB

Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.

YLT

Far from the wicked is salvation, For Thy statutes they have not sought.

DBT

Salvation is far from the wicked; for they seek not thy statutes.

About this book

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

15 verses on the floor

Psalms 73:27
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
Psalms 85:9
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Ephesians 2:17–18
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Romans 3:11
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

Though the remembering of God's law is not meritorious, yet it evinces a filial temper and provides the pious with promises to plead, while the wicked in neglecting His law, reject God and despise His promises (compare Ps 9:13;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 119:155ROM 3:11 PSA 14:2-4
PSA 119:155ROM 3:11 PSA 53:2
PSA 119:155ISA 57:19 ACT 2:39
PSA 119:155ISA 57:19 HEB 13:15
PSA 119:155PSA 18:27 ISA 66:2
PSA 119:155ROM 3:11 TIT 3:3
PSA 119:155PSA 18:27 JAS 2:5
PSA 119:155ROM 3:11 HOS 4:6

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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