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Psa. 119:142 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thy righteousness
tsdaqah (Hebrew #6666)
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV usage: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
Pronounce: tsed-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 6663
is an everlasting
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
righteousness
tsedeq (Hebrew #6664)
the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
KJV usage: X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), ((un-))right(-eous) (cause, -ly, - ness).
Pronounce: tseh'-dek
Origin: from 6663
, andu thy law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
is the truth
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
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John 17:17• 17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17)

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Thy righteousness.Men, as Bp. Horne observes, may decree wickedness by a law; or they may change their decrees, and with them what is right to-day may be wrong to-morrow; but the law of God is righteousness, and it is truth, to-day and for ever.an everlasting.
Psa. 119:144• 144The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live. (Psa. 119:144)
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Psa. 36:6• 6Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. (Psa. 36:6)
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Isa. 51:6,8• 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
 8For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation. (Isa. 51:6,8)
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Dan. 9:24• 24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. (Dan. 9:24)
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2 Thess. 1:6‑10• 6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
 7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
 8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
 9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
 10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day. (2 Thess. 1:6‑10)
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Psa. 119:151• 151Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth. (Psa. 119:151)
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Psa. 19:9• 9The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. (Psa. 19:9)
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John 17:17• 17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17)
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Eph. 4:21• 21If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: (Eph. 4:21)
• He knows the truth will prevail, and that God’s righteousness is everlasting. (“Psalm 119:137-144: Division 18 (Tzaddi)” by H. Smith)
• They are God's words—what God is as judging evil and good; He is everlasting. His righteousness is everlasting, and His law truth. It is not here, surely, the truth that came along with grace by Jesus Christ; but in the presence of all else on the earth, which is a lie, that is truth, true religion, God's mind about everything in contrast with man's thoughts and all he sets up to be; and God will make His judgment therein revealed, good forever. (Comp. Isa. 42:3.) (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:121-176” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousnessg, and thy law is truth.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "a righteousness for ever." see ver. 144.