Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Parallel translations
- WEB Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- BSB Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
- 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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Quick answer
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.
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- Ps 119:92Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
- 2 Tim 3:15–17And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
- Ps 119:16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- Josh 1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
- Prov 6:20–23My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- Ps 19:11Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.
- Ps 119:97–100O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
- Ps 119:162I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
- Ps 119:77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
- Ps 119:104–105Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
- Ps 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
- Deut 17:18–20And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
- Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
- Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
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