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Psa. 119:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thy testimonies also are myn delight and λmyo counsellors.

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Psa. 119:77,92• ⁷⁷Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
⁹²Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction. (Psa. 119:77,92)

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Prov. 7:1‑4• ¹My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
²Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
³Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
⁴Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: (Prov. 7:1‑4)

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Psa. 119:16,77,92,143,162• ¹⁶I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
⁷⁷Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
⁹²Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
¹⁴³Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
¹⁶²I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. (Psa. 119:16,77,92,143,162)

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Job 27:10• ¹⁰Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? (Job 27:10)

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Jer. 6:10• ¹⁰To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it. (Jer. 6:10)

my counsellors.

Heb. men of my counsel.

Psa. 119:97‑100,104‑105• ⁹⁷MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
⁹⁸Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
¹⁰⁰I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
¹⁰⁴Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
¹⁰⁵NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psa. 119:97‑100,104‑105)

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Psa. 19:11• ¹¹Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward. (Psa. 19:11)

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Deut. 17:18‑20• ¹⁸And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
¹⁹And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
²⁰That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel. (Deut. 17:18‑20)

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Josh. 1:8• ⁸This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. (Josh. 1:8)

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Prov. 6:20‑23• ²⁰My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
²¹Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
²²When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
²³For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: (Prov. 6:20‑23)

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Isa. 8:20• ²⁰To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isa. 8:20)

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Col. 3:16• ¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (Col. 3:16)

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2 Tim. 3:15‑17• ¹⁵And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
¹⁷That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (2 Tim. 3:15‑17)

• Still, meanwhile, he can retreat into his own delights; he meditates in God's statutes, hid there from the pride of man. They are his delight, and his counselors, too. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:1-24” by J.N. Darby)

• There is no need to answer those whom God rebukes, and hence the psalmist is silent in the presence of their hard speeches, finding his delight and counsel in the testimonies of God. (“Psalm 119:17-24: Division 3 (Gimel)” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.