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Psalm 119:142–144

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142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,

and your instruction is true.aw

143Trouble and distress have overtaken me,

but your commands are my delight.ax

144Your decrees are righteous forever.ay

Give me understanding, and I will live.

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Cross references

  1. awPs 119:151,160
  2. axPs 119:24
  3. ayPs 19:9

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Your righteousness is righteous forever,

and your law is true.

Trouble and anguish have found me out,

but your commandments are my delight.

Your testimonies are righteous forever;

give me understanding that I may live.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Your righteousness is everlasting

and your law is true.

Trouble and distress have come upon me,

but your commands give me delight.

Your statutes are always righteous;

give me understanding that I may live.

NLTNew Living Translation

Your justice is eternal,

and your instructions are perfectly true.

As pressure and stress bear down on me,

I find joy in your commands.

Your laws are always right;

help me to understand them so I may live.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,

and your law is truth.

Trouble and anguish have found me;

your commands delight me.

The righteousness of your testimonies is forever;

give me understanding that I may live.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,

And thy law is the truth.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:

Yet thy commandments are my delights.

The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting:

Give me understanding, and I shall live.