Psalms 119:57

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55 ^aI remember Your name in the night, O Lord,
And I keep Your law.

56 This has become mine,
Because I kept Your precepts.

ח Heth

57 ^aYou are my portion, O Lord;
I have said that I would keep Your words.

58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart;
Be merciful to me according to Your word.

59 I ^athought about my ways,
And turned my feet to Your testimonies.

60 I made haste, and did not delay
To keep Your commandments.

61 The cords of the wicked have bound me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.

62 ^aAt midnight I will rise to give thanks to You,
Because of Your righteous judgments.

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Psalms 119:57

Thou art my portion, O Lord - This begins a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Cheth ( ch ), which may be represented in English by "ch." On the meaning of the language here, see the notes at Psalms 16:5. God was to him what other people seek in wealth, honor, pleasure, fame. To him, God was all and in all. He asked nothing else.

I have said - I have formed the purpose, and have expressed it. It is the deliberate and settled design of my life.

That I would keep thy words - That I would obey thee at all times; that I would keep all thy commandments.

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