50 My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
50 These words hold me up in bad times; yes, your promises rejuvenate me.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.
50 Your promise revives me; it comforts me in all my troubles.
52 I remember, Lord, your ancient laws, and I find comfort in them.
52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.
52 When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O Lord.
52 I watch for your ancient landmark words, and know I'm on the right track.
52 I remembered Your judgments of old, O Lord, And have comforted myself.
52 I meditate on your age-old regulations; O Lord, they comfort me.
(Read Psalm 119:49-56)
Those that make God's promises their portion, may with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us, will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in affliction. If, through grace, it makes us holy, there is enough in it to make us easy, in all conditions. Let us be certain we have the Divine law for what we believe, and then let not scoffers prevail upon us to decline from it. God's judgments of old comfort and encourage us, for he is still the same. Sin is horrible in the eyes of all that are sanctified. Ere long the believer will be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. In the mean time, the statutes of the Lord supply subjects for grateful praise. In the season of affliction, and in the silent hours of the night, he remembers the name of the Lord, and is stirred up to keep the law. All who have made religion the first thing, will own that they have been unspeakable gainers by it.
76 May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant.
76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
76 Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant.
76 Oh, love me - and right now! - hold me tight! just the way you promised.
76 Let, I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort, According to Your word to Your servant.
76 Now let your unfailing love comfort me, just as you promised me, your servant.
(Read Psalm 119:73-80)
God made us to serve him, and enjoy him; but by sin we have made ourselves unfit to serve him, and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to beseech him, by his Holy Spirit, to give us understanding. The comforts some have in God, should be matter of joy to others. But it is easy to own, that God's judgments are right, until it comes to be our own case. All supports under affliction must come from mercy and compassion. The mercies of God are tender mercies; the mercies of a father, the compassion of a mother to her son. They come to us when we are not able to go to them. Causeless reproach does not hurt, and should not move us. The psalmist could go on in the way of his duty, and find comfort in it. He valued the good will of saints, and was desirous to keep up his communion with them. Soundness of heart signifies sincerity in dependence on God, and devotedness to him.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 119:50
Commentary on Psalm 119:49-56
(Read Psalm 119:49-56)
Those that make God's promises their portion, may with humble boldness make them their plea. He that by his Spirit works faith in us, will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in affliction. If, through grace, it makes us holy, there is enough in it to make us easy, in all conditions. Let us be certain we have the Divine law for what we believe, and then let not scoffers prevail upon us to decline from it. God's judgments of old comfort and encourage us, for he is still the same. Sin is horrible in the eyes of all that are sanctified. Ere long the believer will be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. In the mean time, the statutes of the Lord supply subjects for grateful praise. In the season of affliction, and in the silent hours of the night, he remembers the name of the Lord, and is stirred up to keep the law. All who have made religion the first thing, will own that they have been unspeakable gainers by it.