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Psalm 119

Psa. 119:143 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Trouble
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
and anguish
matsowq (Hebrew #4689)
a narrow place, i.e. (abstractly and figuratively) confinement or disability
KJV usage: anguish, distress, straitness.
Pronounce: maw-tsoke'
Origin: from 6693
have μtaken hold
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
on me: yet thy commandments
mitsvah (Hebrew #4687)
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
KJV usage: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Pronounce: mits-vaw'
Origin: from 6680
are my delights
sha`shua` (Hebrew #8191)
enjoyment
KJV usage: delight, pleasure.
Pronounce: shah-shoo'-ah
Origin: from 8173
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μ
found me.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Trouble.
Psa. 119:107• 107I was afflicted exceedingly: Jehovah,{HR}Quicken me according to thy word. (Psa. 119:107)
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Psa. 18:4‑5• 4Pains of death encompassed me,{HR}And streams of wickedness terrify me.
 5Pains of Sheol surrounded me,{HR}Snares of death fell upon me. (Psa. 18:4‑5)
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Psa. 88:3‑18• 3For my soul is full of troubles,{HR}And my life draweth nigh to Sheol.
 4I am counted with those that descend to the pit,{HR}I am as a man without strength:
 5Among the dead free, as the slain that lie in the grave,{HR}Whom thou rememberest no more,{HR}And they are cut off from thy hand.
 6Thou hast laid me in the pit of abysses,{HR}In dark places, in depths.
 7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,{HR}And thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy breakers. Selah.
 8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me,{HR}Thou hast made me abomination to them:{HR}[I am] shut up and cannot come forth.
 9Mine eye wasteth because of mine affliction.{HR}I have called on thee, O Jehovah, every day,{HR}I have stretched out my hands toward thee.
 10Wilt thou do a wonder to the dead?{HR}Shall shades (Rephaim) arise?{HR}Shall they praise thee? Selah.
 11Shall thy mercy be declared in the grave?{HR}Thy faithfulness in destruction (Abaddon)?
 12Shall thy wonders be known in the darkness,{HR}And thy righteousness in a land of forgetfulness?
 13But for me, I cry unto thee, O Jehovah,{HR}And in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.
 14Why, O Jehovah, dost thou cast off my soul?{HR}Hidest thou thy face from me?
 15Poor [am] I and expiring from youth;{HR}I have borne thy terror; I am distracted.
 16Thy fierce angers have come over me;{HR}Thy terrors have cut me off,
 17They have surrounded me like the water all the day,{HR}And they have closed in upon me together.
 18Thou hast put far from me lover and associate;{HR}Mine acquaintances [are] darkness. (Psa. 88:3‑18)
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Psa. 116:3• 3Bands of death compassed me,{HR}And straits of Sheol seized me:{HR}I found trouble and sorrow; (Psa. 116:3)
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Psa. 130:1• 1A song of the ascents.{HR}Out of the depths{HR}Do I call on thee, Jehovah. (Psa. 130:1)
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Mark 14:33‑34• 33And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and he began to be amazed and deeply depressed.
 34And he says to them, My soul is full of grief even unto death; tarry here and watch. (Mark 14:33‑34)
taken hold on me.
Heb. found me.
yet thy.
Psa. 119:16,47,77• 16In thy statutes I will delight myself;{HR}I will not forget thy word.
 47And I will delight myself in thy commandments{HR}Which I have loved,
 77Let thy compassions come to me, and I shall live;{HR}For thy law [is] my delights. (Psa. 119:16,47,77)
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Job 23:12• 12The commandment of his lips I have not left,{HR}More than my law ,{HR}Have I kept the sayings of his mouth. (Job 23:12)
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John 4:34• 34Jesus saith to them, It is my food that I should do the will of him that sent me, and finish his work. (John 4:34)
• The tribulation of the power of evil will take hold of the remnant, but there will be the comfort of the commandments being their delight in the inner man. So we in all sorrow, in the evil day in a yet higher way. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:121-176” by J.N. Darby)
• {v.143-144} Enemies may surround him, trouble and anguish may take hold of him, but trial and sorrow will pass away, while the righteousness of God’s testimonies will abide. Therefore, he finds his delight in God’s commandments, and looks to God for guidance into the path that leads to life beyond all trouble and anguish. (“Psalm 119:137-144: Division 18 (Tzaddi)” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Trouble and anguish have taken hold upon me: thy commandments are my delights.

W. Kelly Translation

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Distress and anguish seized me;{HR}Thy commandments [are] my delights.