This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
- KJV This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
- NKJV This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.
- NASB This is my comfort in my misery, That Your word has revived me.
- NLT Your promise revives me; it comforts me in all my troubles.
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Quick answer
The psalmist's comfort in affliction is that God's word gives him life. It matters because Scripture sustains and revives believers in the midst of suffering.
Overview
Amid affliction, the psalmist finds his consolation in the life-giving power of God's promise. The word does not merely inform but revives his soul. This reviving word points to the gospel, where the word of Christ brings life and comfort to those who suffer, assuring them of resurrection hope.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Rom 15:4For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
- John 6:63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- Ps 94:19When anxiety overwhelms me, Your consolation delights my soul.
- Ps 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
- Ps 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
- Heb 6:17–19So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
- Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
- Ps 27:13Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- Ps 119:25My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
- Rom 5:3–5Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
- Ps 42:8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
- Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
- Ezek 37:10So I prophesied as He had commanded me, and the breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet—a vast army.
- Heb 12:11–12No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.
- 1 Pet 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
- 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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