Psalms 119:97
(ASV) Mem. Oh how I love thy Word! It is my meditation all the day.
(ERV) Oh, how I love your teachings! I talk about them all the time.
(ESV) Mem. Oh how I love your Word! It is my meditation all the day.
(GNB) How I love your Word! I think about it all day long.
(ISV) Mem. How I love your instruction! Every day it is my meditation.
(JUB) O how I love thy Word! it is my meditation all the day.
(KJV) MEM. O how love I thy Word! it is my meditation all the day.
(KJV+) MEM. O howH4100 loveH157 I thy Word!H8451 itH1931 is my meditationH7881 allH3605 the day.H3117
Psalms 119:97-104
97 O How love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers - for they testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101 have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102 I have not departed from thy judgments - for thou hast taught me.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way
Psa_119:97
“O how love I thy Word!” It is a note of exclamation. He loves so much that he must express his love, and in making the attempt he perceives that it is inexpressible - and therefore cries, “O how I love!” We not only reverence but love the law, we obey it out of love, and even when it chides us for disobedience we love it none the less. The law is God's law, and therefore it is our love. We love it for its holiness, and pine to be holy; we love it for its wisdom, and study to be wise; we love it for its perfection, and long to be perfect. Those who know the power of the gospel perceive an infinite loveliness in the law as they see it fulfilled and embodied in Christ Jesus. “It is my meditation all the day.” This was both the effect of his love and the cause of it. He meditated in God's word because he loved it, and then loved it the more because he meditated in it. He could not have enough of it, so ardently did he love it: all the day was not too long for his converse with it. His matin prayer, his noonday thought, his evensong were all out of Holy Writ; yea, in his worldly business he still kept his mind saturated with the law of the Lord. It is said of some men that the more you know them the less you admire them; but the reverse is true of God's word. Familiarity with the word of God breeds affection, and affection seeks yet greater familiarity. When “thy law,” and “my meditation” are together all the day, the day grows holy, devout, and happy, and the heart lives with God. David turned away from all else; for in Psa_119:96 he tells us that he had seen an end of all perfection; but he turned in unto the law and tarried there the whole day of his life on earth, growing henceforth wiser and holier.
(ASV) Mem. Oh how I love thy Word! It is my meditation all the day.
(ERV) Oh, how I love your teachings! I talk about them all the time.
(ESV) Mem. Oh how I love your Word! It is my meditation all the day.
(GNB) How I love your Word! I think about it all day long.
(ISV) Mem. How I love your instruction! Every day it is my meditation.
(JUB) O how I love thy Word! it is my meditation all the day.
(KJV) MEM. O how love I thy Word! it is my meditation all the day.
(KJV+) MEM. O howH4100 loveH157 I thy Word!H8451 itH1931 is my meditationH7881 allH3605 the day.H3117
Psalms 119:97-104
97 O How love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
99 I have more understanding than all my teachers - for they testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
101 have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
102 I have not departed from thy judgments - for thou hast taught me.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way
Psa_119:97
“O how love I thy Word!” It is a note of exclamation. He loves so much that he must express his love, and in making the attempt he perceives that it is inexpressible - and therefore cries, “O how I love!” We not only reverence but love the law, we obey it out of love, and even when it chides us for disobedience we love it none the less. The law is God's law, and therefore it is our love. We love it for its holiness, and pine to be holy; we love it for its wisdom, and study to be wise; we love it for its perfection, and long to be perfect. Those who know the power of the gospel perceive an infinite loveliness in the law as they see it fulfilled and embodied in Christ Jesus. “It is my meditation all the day.” This was both the effect of his love and the cause of it. He meditated in God's word because he loved it, and then loved it the more because he meditated in it. He could not have enough of it, so ardently did he love it: all the day was not too long for his converse with it. His matin prayer, his noonday thought, his evensong were all out of Holy Writ; yea, in his worldly business he still kept his mind saturated with the law of the Lord. It is said of some men that the more you know them the less you admire them; but the reverse is true of God's word. Familiarity with the word of God breeds affection, and affection seeks yet greater familiarity. When “thy law,” and “my meditation” are together all the day, the day grows holy, devout, and happy, and the heart lives with God. David turned away from all else; for in Psa_119:96 he tells us that he had seen an end of all perfection; but he turned in unto the law and tarried there the whole day of his life on earth, growing henceforth wiser and holier.
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