Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
Psalms 119:70 in other translations
| BSB | Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law. |
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| WEB | Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law. |
| ASV | Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in thy law. |
| YLT | Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I--in Thy law I have delighted. |
| DARBY | Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law. |
| BBE | Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law. |
| Webster | Their heart is as gross as fat; but I delight in thy law. |
What does Psalms 119:70 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:69-70
69-70. The crafty malice of the wicked, in slandering him, so far from turning him away, but binds him closer to God's Word, which they are too stupid in sin to appreciate. Hengstenberg refers the "lie" to such slanders against the Jews during the captivity, as that in Ezr 4:1-6, of sedition.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:65-72
However God has dealt with us, he has dealt with us better than we deserve; and all in love, and for our good. Many have knowledge, but little judgment; those who have both, are fortified against the snares of Satan, and furnished for the service of God. We are most apt to wander from God, when we are easy in the world. We should leave our concerns to the disposal of God, seeing we know not what is good for us…
Psalms 119:70 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:70
- Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
- Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
- Psalms 73:7
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
- Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
- Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- Psalms 119:35
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
- Psalms 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
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Context
- Psalms 119:69
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
- Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
- Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Psalms 119:70 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Engrasóse el corazón de ellos como sebo; mas yo en tu ley me he deleitado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Leur cœur est épaissi comme la graisse; moi, je trouve mes délices en ta loi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ihr Herz ist dick geworden wie Fett; ich habe meine Wonne an deinem Gesetz. |