Psalms 119:49

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

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WEBBE

Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.

BSB

Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.

KJV

Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

ASV

Remember the word unto thy servant, Because thou hast made me to hope.

BBE

<ZAIN> Keep in mind your word to your servant, for on it has my hope been fixed.

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זְכֹר־ ze·khor- remember H2142 דָּבָר da·var [the] word H1697 לְעַבְדֶּךָ le·'av·de·kha to servant your H5650 עַל 'al on H5921 אֲשֶׁר 'a·sher that H834 יִחַלְתָּנִי yi·chal·ta·ni you have made hope me H3176

The early church

"O remember Your word unto Your servant, wherein You have given me hope" [Psalm 119:49]. Is forgetfulness incident to God, as it is to man? Why then is it said unto Him, "O remember"? Although in other passages of holy Scripture this very word is used, as, "Why have You forgotten me?" and, "Wherefore forgettest Thou our misery?". ..These expressions are borrowed from moral discourses on human affections; although God does these things according to a fixed dispensation, with no failing memory, nor with an understanding obscured, nor with a will changed. When therefore it is said unto Him, "O remember," the desire of him who prays is displayed, because he asks for what was promised; God is not admonished, as if the promise had escaped from His mind. "O remember," he says, "Your word unto Your servant:" that is, fulfil Your promise to Your servant. "Wherein You have given me hope:" that is, in Your Word, since You have promised, You have caused me to hope.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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. God's judgments of old comfort and encourage us, for he is still the same. Sin is horrible in the eyes of all that are sanctified. Ere long the believer will be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. In the mean time, the statutes of the Lord supply subjects for grateful praise. In the season of affliction, and in the silent hours of the night, he remembers the name of the Lord, and is stirred up to keep the law. All who have made religion the first thing, will own that they have been unspeakable gainers by it.

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