Psalms 119:70 · KJV
“Their heart is as fat as grease; {but} I delight in thy law.”
— Psalms 119:70
The proud have forged a lie against me: {but} I will keep thy precepts with {my} whole heart.
{It is} good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Psalms 119 — Context
Thou {art} good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
69The proud have forged a lie against me: {but} I will keep thy precepts with {my} whole heart.
70Their heart is as fat as grease; {but} I delight in thy law.
71{It is} good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
72The law of thy mouth {is} better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Cross References
Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with {their} eyes, and hear with {their} ears, and understand with {their} heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Psalms 73:7
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. {have...: Heb. pass the thoughts of the heart}
Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Isaiah 6:10
Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Psalms 119:35
Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Psalms 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law {is} within my heart. {within...: Heb. in the midst of my bowels}