Psalms 119:52

I remember your ordinances of old, Yahweh, and have comforted myself.

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WEBBE

I remember your ordinances of old, LORD, and have comforted myself.

BSB

I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.

ASV

I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself.

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זָכַרְתִּי za·khar·ti I remember H2142 מִשְׁפָּטֶיךָ mish·pa·tei·kha judgments your H4941 מֵעוֹלָם me·'o·lam from long ago H5769 יְהוָה yah·weh O Yahweh H3068 וָאֶתְנֶחָם va·'et·ne·cham and I have comforted myself H5162

The early church

"For I was mindful of Your judgments from the beginning of the world, O Lord, and received comfort" [Psalm 119:52]; or, as other copies have it, "and I was exhorted," that is, received exhortation. For either might be rendered for the Greek pareklhqhn. "From the beginning of the world," that is, from the birth of the human race, "I was mindful of Your judgments" upon the vessels of wrath, which are fitted unto perdition: "and I received comfort," since through these also have You shown the riches of Your glory on the vessels of Your mercy. [Romans 9:22-23]

Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

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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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.