Psalm 119:49-56
ז Zayin
49 Remember your word to your servant,
for you have given me hope.
50 My comfort in my suffering is this:
Your promise preserves my life.
51 The arrogant mock me unmercifully,
but I do not turn from your law.
52 I remember, LORD, your ancient laws,
and I find comfort in them.
53 Indignation grips me because of the wicked,
who have forsaken your law.
54 Your decrees are the theme of my song
wherever I lodge.
55 In the night, LORD, I remember your name,
that I may keep your law.
56 This has been my practice:
I obey your precepts.
Psalm 119:49-56
- Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible
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Psalms 119:49-56
Those that make God's promises their portion, May with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us will work for us.
The word of God speaks comfort in affliction. If, through grace, it makes us holy, there is enough in it to make us easy, in all conditions.
Let us be certain we have the Divine law for what we believe, and then let not scoffers prevail upon us to decline from it. God's judgments of old comfort and encourage us, for he is still the same.
Sin is horrible in the eyes of all that are sanctified. Ere long the believer will be absent from the body, and present with the Lord.
In the meantime, the statutes of the Lord supply subjects for grateful praise. In the season of affliction, and in the silent hours of the night, he remembers the name of the Lord, and is stirred up to keep the law.
All who have made religion the first thing, will own that they have been unspeakable gainers by it.
