This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
Parallel translations
- WEB This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
- BSB This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 16
- Rom 15:4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
- John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- Ps 94:19In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
- Ps 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
- Ps 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
- Heb 6:17–19Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- Jer 15:16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
- Ps 27:13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
- Ps 119:25My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- Rom 5:3–5And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
- Ps 42:8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
- Jas 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
- Ezek 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
- Heb 12:11–12Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
- 1 Pet 2:2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
- 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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