Psalms 119:153

Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Consider	רְאֵֽה re.'eh-	H7200	to see · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
affliction	עָנְיִ֥י 'a.ne.Yi	H6040	depression · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix
deliver	וְחַלְּצֵ֑נִי ve.cha.le.Tze.ni	H2502	to pull off · conjunction + verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
forget	שָׁכָֽחְתִּי sha.Kha.che.ti	H7911	to mislay · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
law	תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ to.ra.te.kha	H8451	a precept or statute · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Psalms 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Psalms 9:13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms 25:19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Psalms 119:141 I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
Psalms 119:159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:153-154

Here, I. David prays for succour in distress. Is any afflicted? let him pray; let him pray as David does here. 1. He has an eye to God's pity, and prays, "Consider my affliction; take it into thy thoughts, and all the circumstances of it, and sit not by as one unconcerned." God is never unmindful of his people's afflictions, but he will have us to put him in remembrance (Isa 43:26), to spread our case before him, and then leave it to his compassionate consideration to do in it as in his wisdom he shall think fit, in his own time and way. 2. He has an eye to God's power and prays, Deliver me; and again, "Deliver me; consider my troubles and bring me out of them." God has promised deliverance…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:153

RESH.--The Twentieth Part. RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me,.... Or, "look upon mine affliction" (e); as in Psalm 25:18. The Lord seems as if he did not, when he does not grant his gracious presence to his people; or does not arise to the help and deliverance of them so soon as they desire and expect: but he always sees and beholds their afflictions; he cannot do otherwise, since he is the omniscient God; and not only so, but he is the author, appointer, and orderer of them; yea, he looks upon them with an eye of pity and compassion, which is what is here prayed for: he sympathizes with his people in all their afflictions, supports them under them, pays kind visits to them, sa…

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John Calvin on Psalms 119:153-160

Psalm 119:153-160 153. r Behold my affliction, and rescue me: for I have not forgotten thy law. 154. r Debate my cause, and redeem me: quicken thy according to thy word. 155. r Safety is far from the wicked; because they have not sought thy statutes. 156. r O Jehovah! Thy tender mercies are many: quicken me according to thy judgments. 157. r My persecutors and oppressors are many: [27] I have not swerved from thy testimonies. 158. r I saw the perfidious, and chid them; because they have not kept thy word. 159. r Behold O Jehovah! how have loved thy commandments: quicken me according to thy loving kindness. 160. r The beginning [literally, the head [28] ] of thy word is truth; and all the ju…

The Church Fathers

Let no man, set in Christ's body, imagine these words to be alien from himself, since in truth it is the whole body of Christ placed in this humble state that speaketh: "O consider my humiliation, and deliver me: for I forget not Thy law" (ver. 153). In this place we cannot understand any law of God so suitably, as that whereby it is immutably determined that "every one that exalteth himself, shall be abased; and every one that humbleth himself; shall be exalted."
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 119

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Forgetting God · Law — Law

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Psalms 119:153

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:153-154

John Gill on Psalms 119:153

John Calvin on Psalms 119:153-160

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 119:153

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:153-154

John Gill on Psalms 119:153

John Calvin on Psalms 119:153-160

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:153-160

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:153-160