Psalms 119 · Verse 142

Psalms 119:142

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Psalms 119:142, King James Version

Psalms 119:142 in other translations

BSBYour righteousness is everlasting and Your law is true.
WEBYour righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
ASVThy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And thy law is truth.
YLTThy righteousness is righteousness to the age, And Thy law is truth.
DARBYThy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is truth.
BBEYour righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain.
WebsterThy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

What does Psalms 119:142 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:142-144
142-144. The principles of God's government are permanent and reliable, and in the deepest distress His people find them a theme of delightful meditation and a source of reviving power (Psa 119:17, 116). law is the truth--It therefore cannot deceive as to its promises. everlasting--(Psa 111:3), though to outward appearance seeming dead. KOPH. (Psa 119:145-152).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness - The word צדק tsedek is a word of very extensive meaning in the Bible. It signifies, not only God's inherent righteousness and perfection of nature, but also his method of treating others; his plan of redemption; his method of saving others. And the word δικαιοσυνη, which answers to it, in the Septuagint and in the New Testament, is used with the same latitude of meaning, and in the same sense; particularly in that remarkable passage, Rom 3:25-26 (note), where see the notes. Thy merciful method of dealing with sinners and justifying the ungodly will last as long as the earth lasts; and thy law that witnesses this, in all its pages, is the truth.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 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…

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Psalms 119:142 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

צִדְקָתְךָ֣tzid.ka.te.Charighteousness yourH6666
צֶ֣דֶקTze.dek[is] righteousnessH6664
לְעוֹלָ֑םle.'o.Lamfor everH5769
וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ve.to.ra.te.Khaand law yourH8451
אֱמֶֽת\׃'e.Met[is] truthH571

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 119:142

  • Psalms 19:9

    The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

  • John 17:17

    Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

  • Psalms 119:151

    Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth.

  • Isaiah 51:8

    For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

  • Isaiah 51:6

    Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

  • Psalms 119:144

    The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

  • Psalms 36:6

    Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.

  • Ephesians 4:21

    If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

  • Daniel 9:24

    Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

  • 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10

    Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thy righteousness.Men, as Bp. Horne observes, may decree wickedness by a law; or they may change their decrees, and with them what is right to-day may be wrong to-morrow; but the law of God is righteousness, and it is truth, to-day and for ever.
an everlasting.
144; 36:6; Isa 51:6,8; Da 9:24; 2Th 1:6-10
and thy.
151; 19:9; Joh 17:17; Eph 4:21

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Context

  • Psalms 119:141

    I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

  • Psalms 119:142

    Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

  • Psalms 119:143

    Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

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Psalms 119:142 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Tu justicia es justicia eterna, y tu ley la verdad.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ta justice est une justice à toujours, et ta loi est vérité.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Deine Gerechtigkeit ist eine ewige Gerechtigkeit, und dein Gesetz ist Wahrheit.