I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
- BSB I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- NKJV I will delight myself in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. ג Gimel
- NASB I shall delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. Gimel
- NLT I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word. Gimel
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Quick answer
The psalmist delights in God's statutes and resolves not to forget His word. It matters because love for Scripture guards against spiritual neglect and drift.
Overview
Closing the Beth stanza, the psalmist pairs delight in God's statutes with a determination to remember His word. Delight and remembrance reinforce each other in the faithful life. This joyful, retentive love for God's word reflects the heart God gives in Christ, who treasured and obeyed His Father's word perfectly.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Ps 119:24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
- Prov 3:1My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
- Ps 119:47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
- Ps 119:35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
- Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- Ps 119:77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
- Ps 119:70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
- Ps 119:92–93Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
- Ps 119:141I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
- Heb 10:16–17This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
- Ps 119:83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
- Ps 119:176I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
- Ps 119:109My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
- Jas 1:23–24For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
- Ps 1:2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
- Ps 40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
- Ps 119:14I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
- Ps 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
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