Psalms 119 · Verse 97

Psalms 119:97

מ MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Psalms 119:97, King James Version

Psalms 119:97 in other translations

BSBOh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
WEBHow I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
ASVOh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.
YLTMem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.
DARBYMEM. Oh how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
BBEO what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
WebsterMEM. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

What does Psalms 119:97 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
97. This characteristic love for God's law (compare Psa 1:2) ensures increase.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 97 O how love I thy law - This is one of the strongest marks of a gracious and pious heart, cast in the mould of obedience. Such love the precepts of Christ: in his commandments they delight; and this delight is shown by their making them frequent subjects of their meditation.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:97-104
What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in his heart. By meditation on God's testimonies we understand more than our teachers, when we understand our own hearts. The written word is a more sure guide to heaven, than all the fathers, the teachers, and ancients of the church. We cannot, with any comfort or boldness, attend God in holy duties, while under guilt, or in any by-way. It was Divine grace in his heart, that enabled the psalmist to receive these instructions. The soul has its tastes as well as the body. Our relish for the word of God will be greatest, when that for the world and the flesh is least. The way of sin is a wrong way; and the more understanding we get by the precepts of God, the more rooted will be our hatred of sin; and the more ready we are in the Scriptures, the better furnished we are with answers to temptation.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 119:97 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.

מָֽה\־mah-how!H4100
אָהַ֥בְתִּי'a.Hav.tiI loveH157
תוֹרָתֶ֑ךָto.ra.Te.khalaw yourH8451
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
הַ֝יּ֗וֹםhai.Yomthe dayH3117
הִ֣יאhi'itH1931
שִׂיחָתִֽי\׃si.cha.Ti[is] meditation myH7881

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

Cross references for Psalms 119:97

  • Psalms 1:2

    But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

  • Proverbs 2:10

    When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

  • Psalms 119:159

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

  • Joshua 1:8

    This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

  • Psalms 119:48

    My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

  • Deuteronomy 17:19

    And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

  • Psalms 119:167

    My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.

  • Psalms 119:165

    Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

  • Deuteronomy 6:6-9

    And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

  • Psalms 119:127

    Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

  • Proverbs 18:1

    Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

  • Psalms 119:113

    ס SAMECH. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
MEM
O how.
48,113,127,159,165,167; 1:2; De 6:6-9; 17:19; Jos 1:8; Pr 2:10
Pr 18:1

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

Context

  • Psalms 119:96

    I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

  • Psalms 119:97

    מ MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

  • Psalms 119:98

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

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Psalms 119:97 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		MEM ¡Cuánto amo yo tu ley! todo el día es ella mi meditación.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Combien j’aime ta loi! tout le jour je la médite.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wie liebe ich dein Gesetz! Es ist mein Sinnen den ganzen Tag.