Psalm 119:153-160

Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

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Look on my _c affliction and deliver me,
for _d I do not forget your law.
¹⁵⁴ _e Plead my cause and redeem me;
_f give me life according to your promise!
¹⁵⁵ _g Salvation is far from the wicked,
_h for they do not seek your statutes.
¹⁵⁶ _i Great is your mercy, O Lord;
_f give me life according to your rules.
¹⁵⁷ _j Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,
but I do not _k swerve from your testimonies.
¹⁵⁸ I look at _l the faithless with _m disgust,
because they do not keep your commands.
¹⁵⁹ Consider how I _n love your precepts!
_f Give me life according to your steadfast love.
¹⁶⁰ _o The sum of your word is _p truth,
and every one of your _q righteous rules endures forever.

1. Cross References
   Job 36:15
   He delivers the afflicted by their affliction and opens their ear by adversity.
   
2. Cross References
   Psalms 119:83
   For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
   
3. Cross References
   Psalms 35:1
   Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me!
   
4. Cross References
   Psalms 119:25
   My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word!
   
5. Cross References
   Job 5:4
   His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
   
6. Cross References
   Psalms 119:150
   They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from your law.
   
7. Cross References
   2 Samuel 24:14
   Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his mercy is great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.
   
8. Cross References
   Psalms 119:154
   Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise!
   
9. Cross References
   Psalms 3:1 - 2
   O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me.
   
10. Cross References
    Psalms 119:51
    The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.
    
11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 3:20
    Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the Lord.'
    
12. Cross References
    Psalms 139:21
    Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord ? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
    Psalms 119:136
    My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.
    
13. Cross References
    Psalms 119:97
    Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day.
    
14. Cross References
    Psalms 119:154
    Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise!
    
15. Cross References
    Psalms 139:17
    How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
    
16. Cross References
    Psalms 119:142
    Your righteousness is righteous forever, and your law is true.
    Psalms 119:172
    My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.
    
17. Cross References
    Psalms 119:7
    I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.