King James Version
Psalms 119:97 in the King James Version says “MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 119 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.”
Psalms 119:97 · KJV
The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.
I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. they: Heb. it is ever with me
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all the day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
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