Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
Parallel translations
- WEB Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- KJV Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
- NKJV Your testimonies also are my delight And my counselors. ד Daleth
- NASB Your testimonies also are my delight; They are my advisers. Daleth
- NLT Your laws please me; they give me wise advice. Daleth
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God's testimonies are the psalmist's delight and his counselors. It matters because Scripture both gladdens the heart and provides trustworthy guidance for life.
Overview
Closing the Daleth stanza, the psalmist calls God's testimonies his delight and his advisers. Where others seek counsel from men, he turns to God's word for wisdom and joy. This points to Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom, and to the Spirit who counsels believers through the word.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ps 119:92If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.
- 2 Tim 3:15–17From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
- Ps 119:16I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
- Josh 1:8This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.
- Prov 6:20–23My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
- Ps 19:11By them indeed Your servant is warned; in keeping them is great reward.
- Ps 119:97–100Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
- Ps 119:162I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
- Ps 119:77May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
- Ps 119:104–105I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
- Ps 119:143Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
- Deut 17:18–20When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.
- Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
- Job 27:10Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
- Jer 6:10To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
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