Your laws are my treasure; they are my heart’s delight.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- KJV Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
- BSB Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- NKJV Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever, For they are the rejoicing of my heart.
- NASB I have inherited Your testimonies forever, For they are the joy of my heart.
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Quick answer
He has taken God's testimonies as his permanent heritage, the joy of his heart. The word is his treasured, lasting inheritance.
Overview
The psalmist regards God's testimonies as an everlasting inheritance, more prized than land or wealth, and the very joy of his heart. He has made a deliberate, lasting claim on the word as his portion. This anticipates the believer's imperishable inheritance kept in heaven, secured in Christ who is our true and lasting treasure (1 Pet. 1:4; Matt. 13:44).
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Cross-references · 16
- Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
- Ps 16:5Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
- Ps 119:174I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
- Ps 119:92Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
- 1 Pet 1:4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
- Deut 33:4Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
- Ps 119:74Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.
- Ps 19:8Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Ps 119:127Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
- Heb 9:15For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
- Ps 119:14I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
- Isa 54:17No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
- 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
- Ps 119:162I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
- Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
- Col 1:12giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
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