King James Version
What Does Psalms 119:54 Mean?
“Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.”
Context
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.
54
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
55
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
56
This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(54) **Songs.**—Or, *Thy statutes were my music in the house of my sojournings. *Possibly with reference to the exile (comp. Psalm 137:4), but with comparison with Psalm 119:9 (see Note), more probably the reference is to the transitoriness of human life. In connection with the next verse comp. Job 35:10.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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Theological Significance
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