This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word 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.
- BSB This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise 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 whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
- Ps 94:19In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.
- Ps 28:7Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
- Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
- Heb 6:17–19In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
- Jer 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
- Ps 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
- Ps 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
- Rom 5:3–5Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
- Ps 42:8Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
- Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
- Ezek 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
- Heb 12:11–12All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.
- 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
- 1 Pet 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
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