69 Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart. 70 Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law. 71 It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
Psalms 119:69–71
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Psalms 119:142–144
142 Your righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true. 143 Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight. 144 Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
Psalms 119:60–62
60 I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments. 61 Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law. 62 At midnight I rise to give You thanks for Your righteous judgments.
Psalms 119:91–93
91 Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You. 92 If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction. 93 I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
Psalms 119:156–158
156 Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances. 157 Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies. 158 I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word.
Psalms 119:101–103
101 I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word. 102 I have not departed from Your ordinances, for You Yourself have taught me. 103 How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Psalms 119:50–52
50 This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life. 51 The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law. 52 I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.
Psalms 119:166–168
166 I wait for Your salvation, O LORD, and I carry out Your commandments. 167 I obey Your testimonies and love them greatly. 168 I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.
Psalms 119:46–48
46 I will speak of Your testimonies before kings, and I will not be ashamed. 47 I delight in Your commandments because I love them. 48 I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
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