The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
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The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
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The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
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The wicked have waited for me to destroy me; but I will consider Thy testimonies.
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Passages linked to Psalms 119:95 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 119:167 My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
- Psalms 119:31 I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.
- Psalms 119:69 The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
- Psalms 119:85-87 The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law. All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me! They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
- Psalms 10:8-10 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net. The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
- Acts 23:21 Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
- Acts 25:3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
- 1 Samuel 23:20-23 Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.” Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me. Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I have been told that he is very cunning. See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
- Psalms 27:2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- Psalms 37:32 The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him.
- Psalms 38:12 They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
- Psalms 119:24 Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
- Psalms 119:61 The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
- Psalms 119:125 I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
- Psalms 119:129 Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
- Matthew 26:3-5 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas. They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit, and kill him. But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”
- Acts 12:11 When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”
- 2 Samuel 17:1-4 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight. I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only, and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace.” The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
- Psalms 119:111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to…
Psa 119:95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: [but] I will consider thy testimonies.
Ver. 95. The wicked have waited] Nothing less than destruction will satisfy persecutors; but the Lord knows how to deliver his Peters out of the hands of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews, Act 12:11 2Pe 2:9.
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But I will consider thy testimonies] And therewith hearten and harden myself against their insolences and attempts for my hurt.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain As my best comforters, and counsellors, and defenders against…
As my best comforters, and counsellors, and defenders against all the assaults and designs of mine enemies.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain Here, 1. David complains of the malice of his…
Here, 1. David complains of the malice of his enemies: The wicked (and none but such would be enemies to so good a man) have waited for me to destroy me. They were very cruel, and aimed at no less than his destruction; they were very crafty, and sought all opportunities to do him a mischief; and they were confident (they expected, so some read it), that they should destroy him; they thought themselves sure of their prey. 2. He comforts himself in the word of God as his protection: "While they are contriving my destruction, I consider thy testimonies, which secure to me my salvation." God's testimonies are then likely to be our support, when we consider them, and dwell in our thoughts upon them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain I have more understanding than all my teachers,.... Such…
I have more understanding than all my teachers,.... Such as had been or would have been his teachers, who were bad ones in religious matters; especially such might be the religious teachers in Saul's time, when David was a young man: as the priests, whose lips should keep knowledge, and deliver it to the people, were in the times of Malachi; and as the Scribes and Pharisees, who, sat in Moses's chair, were in Christ's time; and as those legal teachers were in the apostles' times, who would be teachers of the law, not knowing what they said, nor whereof they affirmed; such as these David exceeded in spiritual understanding. Or his good teachers are meant; and though in common it is true that "a disciple is not above his master", Mat 10:24; yet there are sometimes instances in which scholars exceed their teachers in knowledge and learning; and this is no reproach to a master to have such scholars: no doubt Apollos so improved in knowledge as to excel Aquila and Priscilla, of whom he learned much; as the Apostle Paul excelled Ananias; and so David excelled his teachers: and which is said by him, not in an ostentatious way of himself, nor in contempt of his teachers; but to commend the word of God, the source of his knowledge; and to magnify the grace of God, to whom he attributes all his wisdom, as in Psa 119:98. Kimchi interprets it,
"of them all I have learned and received instruction; and from them I have understood the good way, and they have taught me;''
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for thy testimonies are my meditation; what he learned of his teachers he compared with the word, the Scriptures, which testify of the mind and will of God; he searched into them, he meditated upon them, and considered whether what his instructors taught him were agreeable to them or and by this means he got more understanding than they had.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The wicked have waited for me to destroy me…
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me - That is, they have lain in wait; or, they have laid a plan. They are watching the opportunity to do it.
But I will consider thy testimonies - I will think of them; I will adhere to them; I will find my support in them; I will not be driven from my adhesion to them by an apprehension of what man can do to me.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The wicked have waited for me to destroy me;…
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me; or, "laid in wait for me". (comp. Psa_56:6, where the same verb is used) But I will consider thy testimonies I will look to thy word of promise, and so sustain their assaults upon me.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 95. The wicked have waited for me to…
Ver. 95. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. They were like wild beasts crouching by the way, or highway men waylaying a defenceless traveller; but the Psalmist went on his way without considering them, for he was considering something better, namely, the witness or testimony which God has borne to the sons of men. He did not allow the malice of the wicked to take him off from his holy study of the divine word. He was so calm that he could "consider"; so holy that he loved to consider the Lord's "testimonies"; so victorious over all their plots that he did not allow them to drive him from his pious contemplations. If the enemy cannot cause us to withdraw our thoughts from holy study, or our feet from holy walking, or our hearts from holy aspirations, lie has met with poor success in his assaults. The wicked are the natural enemies of holy men and holy thoughts; if they could, they would not only damage us but destroy us, and if they cannot do this today they will wait for further opportunities, ever hoping that their evil designs may be compassed. They ave waited hitherto in vain, and they will have to wait much longer yet; for if we are so unmoved that we do not even give them a thought their hope of destroying us must be a very poor one.
Note the double waiting, the patience of the wicked who watch long and carefully for an opportunity to destroy the godly, and then the patience of the saint who will not quit his meditations, even to quiet his foes. See how the serpent's seed lie in wait as an adder that biteth at the horse's heels; but see how the chosen of the Lord live above their venom, and take no more notice of them than if they had no existence.
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Ver. 95. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me. Two things again he notes in his enemies; diligence, in waiting all occasions whereby to do him evil; and cruelty without mercy, for their purpose was to destroy him: wherein, still we see how restless and insatiable is the malice of the wicked against the godly. Daniel's preservation in the lions' den was a great miracle; but it is no less a marvellous work of God, that the godly who are the flock of Christ, are daily preserved in the midst of the wicked, who are but ravening wolves, and thirst for the blood of the saints of God, having a cruel purpose in their heart if they might perform it, utterly to destroy them. William Cowper.
Ver. 95. But I will consider thy testimonies. It was a grievous temptation to be sought for to be given up to slaughter, but a greater mercy to consider God's testimonies, even then when his life was sought for. Had it not been for the consideration of God's testimonies, a thousand to one he had fallen away. Richard Greenham.
Ver. 95. Wicked men patient in carrying out their evil designs. Good men patient in considering the ways of the Lord.
Ver. 95. The hatred of the wicked towards the righteous.
1. Show that it ever has been, and still is.
(a) Select Scriptural instances, beginning with Abel.
(b) Notice the persecutions of the church.
(c) Treatment in the workshop.
(d) Often in the home.
(e) The contemptuous manner the "saints" are spoken of,
etc.
2. Enquire as to why it is so.
(a) The enmity of the carnal heart to God.
(b) The jealousy excited by the Christian's assurance of
eternal blessedness.
(c) The consciousness of being rebuked by a holy life.
(d) Excited to it by Satan.
(e) The restless mischievousness of sin which, if it cannot
hinder holiness, will maliciously hurt its advocates.
3. Direct how to act when exposed to it: "I will consider thy testimonies." That means
(a) Be the more obedient to God.
(b) Have the more watchful control over words and feelings.
(c) Love your enemies.
(d) Pray for those who hate you.
(e) Do good to them on every opportunity.
(f) Be thankful that you are among the hated and not the
haters.
(g) Especially consider the holy testimony of Christ's
forbearing patience. J.F.
Ver. 95. Waiting counter wrought by waiting.
1. Temptations in ambush.
2. The saint with his Lord.
W.B.H.
Ver. 95. Immunity.
1. I am in danger.
2. I will attend to my duty.
3. I will trust thee to deliver me. C.A.D.
Psalms 119:96*
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 I will seek to understand
I will seek to understand
"I will try hard to understand"
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everything has its limits
"all things have an end"
but your commandments are broad, beyond limits
God's commandments always being true and perfect is spoken of as if God's commandments were an object that is so wide that it never ends. AT: "but your commandments are without limits" or "but your commandments are eternal" (See: Metaphor)
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evil
seek
covenant
decree
command
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 119:95 The wicked intended to kill the psalmist, but…
119:95 The wicked intended to kill the psalmist, but destruction (1:6) was their own fate.
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