Psalms 119:111
Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
BSB
ASV
Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart.
KJV
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
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Jeremiah 15:16Your 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.
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And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as…
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
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Psalms 16:5The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.
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My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
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1 Peter 1:4and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,
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But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Thy testimonies - Thy law; thy revealed will; the revelation which thou hast given considered as thy solemn “testimony” as to what is true and right. Have I taken as an heritage for ever - As my inheritance; as my property; as that which I consider to be of real and permanent value. The Hebrew word used here - נחל nachal - means to receive as a possession; to acquire; to possess as wealth; and then, to inherit. It is usually applied to the possession of the promised land as an inheritance. Here it means that the law of God was to him as such a possession. He regarded it as one does a rich inheritance. He chose it as his portion above all things else. For they are the rejoicing of my heart - My happiness is in them. I find constant comfort in them. See Psa 119:77, Psa 119:92. Compare the notes at Psa 1:2.
