144 Your statutes are always righteous; give me understanding that I may live.
144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
144 Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.
144 The way you tell me to live is always right; help me understand it so I can live to the fullest.
144 The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live.
144 Your laws are always right; help me to understand them so I may live.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 119:144
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.