Psalms 119:103
How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
BSB
ASV
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
KJV
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The soul presses forward for a glimpse of hidden mysteries, to the very abode of the Word, to the very dwelling place of that highest Good, and his light and brightness. In that bosom and secret dwelling place of the Father the soul hastens to hear his words, and having heard them, it finds them sweeter than all things. Let the prophet who has tasted this sweetness teach you, when he says, "How sweet are your words to my lips, above honeycomb to my mouth."
1834–1892
THIS is a time of feasting and we may as well have our feast as other people have theirs. Let us see whether there is not something for our spiritual palate, something to satisfy our spiritual appetite, that we may eat, and be content, and rejoice before the Lord. Do you not think that two of the words in our text are very strange? If you had written them, would you not have said, "How sweet are Your Words unto my ears"? The Psalmist says, "How sweet are Your Words unto my palate!"
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
leads to
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
Through
Proverbs 8:11For wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire compares with her.
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How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 63:5My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
leads to
How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!
