Psalms 119:143
Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
BSB
ASV
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.
KJV
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
For this is the divine promise: "The Lord shall fight for you." Henceforth, although afflictions and trials from without overtake them, yet, being fashioned after the apostolic words and "being steadfast in tribulations and persevering in prayers" and in meditation on the law, they stand against those things that befall them, are well-pleasing to God and give utterance to the words that are written, "Afflictions and distresses are come on me, but your commandments are my meditation."
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.
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Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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.
How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
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Psalms 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
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I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
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Psalms 130:1Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!
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During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
