Psalms 119 · Verse 153

Psalms 119:153

ר RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Psalms 119:153, King James Version

Psalms 119:153 in other translations

BSBLook upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
WEBConsider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
ASVConsider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.
YLTResh. See my affliction, and deliver Thou me, For Thy law I have not forgotten.
DARBYRESH. See mine affliction, and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.
BBEO see my trouble, and be my saviour; for I keep your law in my mind,
WebsterRESH. Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

What does Psalms 119:153 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:153-155
153-155. Though the remembering of God's law is not meritorious, yet it evinces a filial temper and provides the pious with promises to plead, while the wicked in neglecting His law, reject God and despise His promises (compare Psa 9:13; 43:1; 69:18).

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 153 Consider mine affliction - See mine addiction or humiliation: but the eye of the Lord affects his heart; and therefore he never sees the distresses of his followers without considering their situation, and affording them help.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:153-160
The closer we cleave to the word of God, both as our rule and as our stay, the more assurance we have of deliverance. Christ is the Advocate of his people, their Redeemer. Those who were quickened by his Spirit and grace, when they were dead in trespasses and sins, often need to have the work of grace revived in them, according to the word of promise. The wicked not only do not God's statutes, but they do not even seek them. They flatter themselves that they are going to heaven; but the longer they persist in sin, the further it is from them. God's mercies are tender; they are a fountain that can never be exhausted. The psalmist begs for God's reviving, quickening grace. A man, steady in the way of his duty, though he may have many enemies, needs to fear none. Those that hate sin truly, hate it as sin, as a transgression of the law of God, and a breaking of his word. Our obedience is only pleasing to God, and pleasant to ourselves, when it comes from a principle of love. All, in every age, who receive God's word in faith and love, find every saying in it faithful.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 119:153 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.

רְאֵֽה\־re.'eh-seeH7200
עָנְיִ֥י'a.ne.Yiaffliction myH6040
וְחַלְּצֵ֑נִיve.cha.le.Tze.niand rescue meH2502
כִּי\־ki-forH3588
תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗to.ra.te.khalaw yourH8451
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
שָׁכָֽחְתִּי\׃sha.Kha.che.tiI have forgottenH7911

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

Cross references for Psalms 119:153

  • Psalms 119:176

    I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

  • Lamentations 5:1

    Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

  • Psalms 9:13

    Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

  • Psalms 25:19

    Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Psalms 119:159

    Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness.

  • Psalms 119:141

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

  • Proverbs 3:1

    My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

  • Psalms 119:16

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

  • Lamentations 2:20

    Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Exodus 3:7-8

    And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

  • Psalms 119:98

    Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

  • Psalms 13:3-4

    Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
RESH
Consider.
159; 9:13; 13:3,4; 25:19; Ex 3:7,8; Ne 9:32; La 2:20; 5:1
for I.
16,98,109,141,176

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 119:152

    Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

  • Psalms 119:153

    ר RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

  • Psalms 119:154

    Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

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Psalms 119:153 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		RESH. Mira mi aflicción, y líbrame; porque de tu ley no me he olvidado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Vois mon affliction, et délivre-moi! Car je n’ai pas oublié ta loi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Sieh an mein Elend und befreie mich! denn dein Gesetz habe ich nicht vergessen.