Psalms 119:109 · KJV
“My soul {is} continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.”
— Psalms 119:109
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
Psalms 119 — Context
I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
108Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
109My soul {is} continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they {are} the rejoicing of my heart.
Cross References
Judges 12:3
And when I saw that ye delivered {me} not, I put my life in my hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and the LORD delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
Job 13:14
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
1 Corinthians 15:31
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. {your: some read, our}
Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
1 Samuel 20:3
And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly {as} the LORD liveth, and {as} thy soul liveth, {there is} but a step between me and death.
Psalms 119:83
For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; {yet} do I not forget thy statutes.
Psalms 119:117
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
1 Samuel 19:5
For he did put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest {it}, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?