Psalms 119:87 · KJV
“They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.”
— Psalms 119:87
All thy commandments {are} faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. {faithful: Heb. faithfulness}
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Psalms 119 — Context
The proud have digged pits for me, which {are} not after thy law.
86All thy commandments {are} faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. {faithful: Heb. faithfulness}
87They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.
88Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
89LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Cross References
Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Psalms 119:61
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: {but} I have not forgotten thy law. {bands: or, companies}
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Psalms 119:51
The proud have had me greatly in derision: {yet} have I not declined from thy law.
1 Samuel 26:24
And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
1 Samuel 24:6-7
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he {is} the anointed of the LORD.
2 Samuel 17:16
Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that {are} with him.
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.