KJV King James Version
This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
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Psalm 119:50
This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.
WEB World English Bible
This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
ASV American Standard Version
This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
This is my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.
Surrounding context — Psalm 119
47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
48 My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
49 ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
50 This [is] my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined from thy law.
52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
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Romans 15:4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.John 6:63It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life.Psalm 94:19In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.Psalm 28:7The LORD [is] my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.Psalm 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.Hebrews 6:17-19Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath:Jeremiah 15:16Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.Psalm 27:13[I had fainted], unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.Psalm 119:25DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.Romans 5:3-5And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;Psalm 42:8[Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.Ezekiel 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.James 1:18Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.1 Peter 2:2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:1 Peter 1:3Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,Hebrews 12:11-12Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
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