86 All your commands are trustworthy; help me, for I am being persecuted without cause.
86 All thy commandments are faithful:
86 All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me!
86 Everything you command is a sure thing, but they harass me with lies. Help!
86 All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; Help me!
86 All your commands are trustworthy. Protect me from those who hunt me down without cause.
138 The statutes you have laid down are righteous; they are fully trustworthy.
138 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous
138 You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.
138 You rightly instruct us in how to live ever faithful to you.
138 Your testimonies, which You have commanded, Are righteous and very faithful.
138 Your laws are perfect and completely trustworthy.
(Read Psalm 119:137-144)
God never did, and never can do wrong to any. The promises are faithfully performed by Him that made them. Zeal against sin should constrain us to do what we can against it, at least to do more in religion ourselves. Our love to the word of God is evidence of our love to God, because it is designed to make us partake his holiness. Men's real excellency always makes them low in their own eyes. When we are small and despised, we have the more need to remember God's precepts, that we may have them to support us. The law of God is the truth, the standard of holiness, the rule of happiness; but the obedience of Christ alone justifies the believer. Sorrows are often the lot of saints in this vale of tears; they are in heaviness through manifold temptations. There are delights in the word of God, which the saints often most sweetly enjoy when in trouble and anguish. This is life eternal, to know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, John 17:3. May we live the life of faith and grace here, and be removed to the life of glory hereafter.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 119:86
Commentary on Psalm 119:81-88
(Read Psalm 119:81-88)
The psalmist sought deliverance from his sins, his foes, and his fears. Hope deferred made him faint; his eyes failed by looking out for this expected salvation. But when the eyes fail, yet faith must not. His affliction was great. He was become like a leathern bottle, which, if hung up in the smoke, is dried and shrivelled up. We must ever be mindful of God's statutes. The days of the believer's mourning shall be ended; they are but for a moment, compared with eternal happiness. His enemies used craft as well as power for his ruin, in contempt of the law of God. The commandments of God are true and faithful guides in the path of peace and safety. We may best expect help from God when, like our Master, we do well and suffer for it. Wicked men may almost consume the believer upon earth, but he would sooner forsake all than forsake the word of the Lord. We should depend upon the grace of God for strength to do every good work. The surest token of God's good-will toward us, is his good work in us.