Your testimonies also are my delight And my counselors. ד Daleth
Parallel translations
- WEB Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- KJV Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
- BSB Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 16
- Ps 119:92Unless your law had been my delight, 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, which is in Christ Jesus.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
- Josh 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
- Prov 6:20–23My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
- Ps 19:11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.
- Ps 119:97–100How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
- Ps 119:162I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
- Ps 119:77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- Ps 119:104–105Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
- Ps 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
- Deut 17:18–20It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
- Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
- Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
- Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
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