143 Trouble and distress have come upon me, but your commands give me delight.
143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
143 Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.
143 Even though troubles came down on me hard, your commands always gave me delight.
143 Trouble and anguish have overtaken me, Yet Your commandments are my delights.
143 As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 119:143
Commentary on Psalm 119:137-144
(Read Psalm 119:137-144)
God never did, and never can do wrong to any. The promises are faithfully performed by Him that made them. Zeal against sin should constrain us to do what we can against it, at least to do more in religion ourselves. Our love to the word of God is evidence of our love to God, because it is designed to make us partake his holiness. Men's real excellency always makes them low in their own eyes. When we are small and despised, we have the more need to remember God's precepts, that we may have them to support us. The law of God is the truth, the standard of holiness, the rule of happiness; but the obedience of Christ alone justifies the believer. Sorrows are often the lot of saints in this vale of tears; they are in heaviness through manifold temptations. There are delights in the word of God, which the saints often most sweetly enjoy when in trouble and anguish. This is life eternal, to know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, John 17:3. May we live the life of faith and grace here, and be removed to the life of glory hereafter.