56 This has been my practice: I obey your precepts.
56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
56 This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.
56 Still, I walk through a rain of derision because I live by your Word and counsel.
56 This has become mine, Because I kept Your precepts.
56 This is how I spend my life: obeying your commandments.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 119:56
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.