Psalms 119:54
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Psalms 119:54 in other translations
| BSB | Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage. |
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| WEB | Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live. |
| ASV | Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage. |
| YLT | Songs have been to me Thy statutes, In the house of my sojournings. |
| DARBY | Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. |
| BBE | Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands. |
| Webster | Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. |
What does Psalms 119:54 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:52-56
52-56. The pious take comfort, when harassed and distressed by wickedness of men who forsake God's law, in remembering that the great principles of God's truth will still abide; and also God's judgments of old--that is, His past interpositions in behalf of His people are a pledge that He will again interpose to deliver them; and they become the theme of constant and delightful meditation. The more we keep the more…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 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…
Psalms 119:54 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:54
- Hebrews 11:13-16
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
- Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
- Psalms 10:1
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 89:1
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Context
- Psalms 119:53
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
- Psalms 119:54
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
- Psalms 119:55
I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.
Psalms 119:54 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Cánticos me fueron tus estatutos en la mansión de mis peregrinaciones. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tes statuts m’ont été des cantiques, dans la maison de mon pèlerinage. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Deine Satzungen sind meine Gesänge gewesen im Hause meiner Fremdlingschaft. |