Psalms 119 · Verse 143

Psalms 119:143

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Psalms 119:143, King James Version

Psalms 119:143 in other translations

BSBTrouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
WEBTrouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
ASVTrouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.
YLTAdversity and distress have found me, Thy commands are my delights.
DARBYTrouble and anguish have taken hold upon me: thy commandments are my delights.
BBEPain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.
WebsterTrouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

What does Psalms 119:143 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).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 143 Trouble and anguish - I am exercised with various trials from men and devils. Have taken hold on me - But still I cleave to my God, and am delighted with his law.

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 119:143 in the original Hebrew

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צַר\־tzar-distressH6862
וּמָצ֥וֹקu.ma.Tzokand anguishH4689
מְצָא֑וּנִיme.tza.'U.nithey have found meH4672
מִ֝צְוֹתֶ֗יךָmitz.vo.Tei.khacommandments yourH4687
שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי\׃sha.'a.shu.'Ai[are] delight<s> myH8191

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

Cross references for Psalms 119:143

  • Job 23:12

    Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

  • Psalms 119:107

    I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O Lord, according unto thy word.

  • Psalms 119:16

    I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

  • Psalms 116:3

    The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • Mark 14:33-34

    And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.

  • Psalms 119:47

    And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

  • Psalms 18:4-5

    The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

  • Psalms 88:3-18

    For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. …

  • Psalms 119:77

    Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

  • Psalms 130:1

    A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.

  • John 4:34

    Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Trouble.
107; 18:4,5; 88:3-18; 116:3; 130:1; Mr 14:33,34
taken hold on me. Heb. found me. yet thy.
16,47,77; Job 23:12; Joh 4:34

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Context

  • 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.

  • Psalms 119:144

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

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Psalms 119:143 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Aflicción y angustia me hallaron: mas tus mandamientos fueron mis deleites.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		La détresse et l’angoisse m’avaient atteint; tes commandements sont mes délices.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Angst und Bedrängnis haben mich erreicht; deine Gebote sind meine Wonne.