Psalms 119:166
in Psalms 119I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments.
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ASV
I have hoped for thy salvation, O Jehovah, And have done thy commandments.
KJV
Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
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This verse in Psalms 119
Commentary
8 notes on this verseObtain the same thing for yourself and strive to advance toward it; for it is able to raise you from earth to heaven. You will not advance in it without preparation or [solely] by chance. First cleanse your soul of every passion and wipe it as clean of every evil as a newly cleansed mirror. Remove far from you every recollection of wrong and anger, which most of all prevents our daily prayers from reaching God. Also remove from your heart the offenses of everyone who has ever sinned against you.
This site's exposition
Rulers persecute me without cause
on Psalms 119:161-168
Rulers persecute him without cause, and his heart fears only the word. Joy comes like plunder found, seven times a day he praises, and peace belongs to those who love the law. Verse 168 says all his ways are before God.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"I have waited," he saith, "for Thy saving health, O Lord, and have loved Thy commandments" (ver. 166). For what would it have profited the righteous of old to have loved the commandments of God, save Christ, who is the saving health of God, had freed them; by the gift of whose Spirit also they were able to love the commandments of God? If therefore they who loved God's commandments, waited for His saving health; how much more necessary was Jesus, that is, the saving Health of God, for the salvation of those that did not love His commandments? This prophecy may suit also the Saints of the period since the revelation of grace, and the preaching of the Gospel, for they that love God's commandments look for Christ, that "when Christ, our life, shall appear, we" may then "appear with Him in glory."
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation,....
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
"Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments." Here we have salvation by grace, and the fruits thereof. All David's hope was fixed upon God, he looked to him alone for salvation; and then he endeavoured most earnestly to fulfil the commands of his law. Those who place least reliance upon good works are very frequently those who have the most of them; that same divine teaching which delivers us from confidence in our own doings leads us to abound in every good work to the glory of God.
"Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments." Here we have salvation by grace, and the fruits thereof. All David's hope was fixed upon God, he looked to him alone for salvation; and then he endeavoured most earnestly to fulfil the commands of his law. Those who place least reliance upon good works are very frequently those who have the most of them; that same divine teaching which delivers us from confidence in our own doings leads us to abound in every good work to the glory of God. In times of trouble there are two things to be done, the first is to hope in God, and the second is to do that which is right. The first without the second would be mere presumption: the second without the first mere formalism. It is well if in looking back we can claim to have acted in the way which is commanded of the Lord. If we have acted rightly towards God we are sure that he will act kindly with us.
Lord, I have hoped - Thou hast promised deliverance, and I have expected it on the ground of that promise.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation - As a prevailing habit or principle in my life. I have looked to thee for deliverance in the time of danger; I have looked to thee for salvation in the world to come. And done thy commandments - That is, habitually. This is not, necessarily, a claim to absolute perfection.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שִׂבַּ֣רְתִּי | sibarti | I wait | H7663 → | 8 times |
| לִֽישׁוּעָתְךָ֣ | lishuatekha | for salvation your | H3444 → | 78 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וּֽמִצְוֹתֶ֥יךָ | umitzvoteikha | and commandments your | H4687 → | 181 times |
| עָשִֽׂיתִי׃ | ʾasiti | I do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
שִׂבַּ֣רְתִּיI wait
sibartiH7663 →8 times
לִֽישׁוּעָתְךָ֣for salvation your
lishuatekhaH3444 →78 times
יְהוָ֑הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
וּֽמִצְוֹתֶ֥יךָand commandments your
umitzvoteikhaH4687 →181 times
עָשִֽׂיתִי׃I do
ʾasitiH6213 →2628 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
it leads to
- John 8:31–32
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
- John 8:43
Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.
- Jeremiah 31:33–34
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And…
- John 8:47
Whoever belongs to God hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
- Psalms 25:8–9
Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
- John 8:31–32
Through
Genesis 49:18I await Your salvation, O LORD.
it leads to
- Psalms 119:174
I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
- Isaiah 25:9
And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us…
- Psalms 119:174
Through
Psalms 119:81My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
it leads to
- Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
- Psalms 84:2
Where this verse is studied
About Psalms
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Augustine of Hippo, On the Psalms, Psalm 119; Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David, Vol. 6; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Psalms; John Damascene, BARLAAM AND JOSEPH 20:175-76; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).