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Psa. 119:61 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The νbands
chebel (Hebrew #2256)
from 2254; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Pronounce: kheh'-bel
Origin: or chebel {khay'-bel}
of the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
have robbed
`uwd (Hebrew #5749)
to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
KJV usage: admonish, charge, earnestly, lift up, protest, call (take) to record, relieve, rob, solemnly, stand upright, testify, give warning, (bear, call to, give, take to) witness.
Pronounce: ood
Origin: a primitive root
me: but I have not forgotten
shakach (Hebrew #7911)
a primitive root; to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
KJV usage: X at all, (cause to) forget.
Pronounce: shaw-kakh'
Origin: or shakeach {shaw-kay'-akh}
thy law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
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or, companies.

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Ministry on This Verse

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The bands.
or, The companies.
Psa. 119:95• 95The wicked have awaited me to destroy me; but I attend unto thy testimonies. (Psa. 119:95)
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Psa. 3:1• 1A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me! (Psa. 3:1)
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1 Sam. 30:3‑5• 3And David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burnt with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters were taken captives.
 4Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
 5And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. (1 Sam. 30:3‑5)
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Job 1:17• 17While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels and took them, and the servants have they smitten with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped, alone, to tell thee. (Job 1:17)
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Hos. 6:9• 9And as troops of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; yea, they commit lewdness. (Hos. 6:9)
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Psa. 119:176• 176I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments. (Psa. 119:176)
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1 Sam. 24:9‑11• 9And David said to Saul, Why dost thou listen to words of men, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt?
 10Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had given thee this day into my hand in the cave; and they bade me kill thee; but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is the anointed of Jehovah.
 11And see, my father, yes, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand. For in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou liest in wait for my life to take it. (1 Sam. 24:9‑11)
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1 Sam. 26:9‑11• 9And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?
 10And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will surely smite him; either his day shall come to die, or he shall descend into battle and perish.
 11Jehovah forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed! But now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go. (1 Sam. 26:9‑11)
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Prov. 24:29• 29Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me, I will render to the man according to his work. (Prov. 24:29)
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Rom. 12:17‑21• 17recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:
 18if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;
 19not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord.
 20If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
 21Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Rom. 12:17‑21)
• Suffering may be found in this path, opposition of the haters of the Lord, the instruments of Satan, but the inward life remains steady and rightly directed—does not swerve in its judgment of its path: “I have not forgotten thy law.” We may be occupied with opposition and evil, so as to have the state of our mind formed by it, though opposed to the wicked. It is but meeting flesh by flesh. He who looks to the Lord has the character of his path in the scene of wickedness formed by the unforgotten word. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalm 119:25-72” by J.N. Darby)
• The one who is set to obey the Lord will at once find that the wicked are against him; but having the Lord for his portion, he is steadfast and unmoved. (“Psalm 119:57-64: Division 8 (Cheth)” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The bands of the wicked have wrapped me round: I have not forgotten thy law.