Psalm 119:61
WEB
The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.
BSB
Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.
KJV
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H2256
n-m — rope, line, district, inheritance, noose, company, throe, ruin
Derivation: or חֵבֶל; 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); a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
KJV: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
n.m — pain
חֵ֫בֶל n.m. pain, pang
1. pains of travail
2. of other than birth-pangs
n.m — cord
חֶ֫בֶל n.m. f. cord, territory, band
1. cord, rope
2. measuring-cord, line
3. measured portion, lot, part, region
4. band, company of prophets
n.[m.]pl — union
חֹבְלִים n.[m.]pl. union (lit. binders) name of Zec.’s second symbolic staff
H7563
a — wrong, bad
Derivation: from 7561;
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV: condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
adj — wicked
רָשָׁע 263 adj. wicked, criminal
H5749
v — duplicate, repeat, protest, testify, encompass, restore
Derivation: a primitive root;
to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
KJV: 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.
vb. denom — bear witness
עוּד vb. denom. bear witness
Qal Impf. < Hiph.
Hiph.
1. testify, bear witness
2. cause to testify, take as witness
3. protest, affirm solemnly, wanr
Hoph. and protest be entered
vb — return
[עוּד] vb. prob. return, go about, repeat, do again
Pi. surround
Pōl‛ēl, restore, relieve
Hithpōl. be restored
H8451
n-f — precept, statute, Decalogue, Pentateuch
Derivation: or תֹּרָה; from 3384;
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV: law.
n.f — direction
תּוֹרָה n.f. direction, instruction, law
1. instruction
2. law (prop. direction)
3. custom, manner
H3808
adv — not, no
Derivation: or לוֹא; or לֹה; (Deuteronomy 3:11), a primitive particle;
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
KJV: × before, or else, ere, except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), (× as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, surely, as truly as, of a truth, verily, for want, whether, without.
adv — not
לֹא or לוֹא adv. not
H7911
v — mislay, be oblivious
Derivation: or שָׁכֵחַ; a primitive root;
to mislay, i.e. to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
KJV: × at all, (cause to) forget.
vb — forget
שָׁכַח 102 vb. forget
Qal 86 forget
Niph. be forgotten
Pi. י׳ hath caused to forget
Hiph. to make my people forget my name
Hithp. they were forgotten in the city.
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Verse 61
Psalms 119:61
Here is, 1. The malice of David's enemies against him. They were wicked men, who hated him for his godliness. There were bands or troops of them confederate against him. They did him all the mischief they could; they robbed him; having endeavoured to take away his good name (Psa 119:51), they set upon his goods, and spoiled him of them, either by plunder in time of war or by fines and confiscations under colour of law. Saul (it is likely) seized his effects, Absalom his palace, and the Amalekites rifled Ziklag. Worldly wealth is what we may be robbed of. David, though a man of war, could not keep his own. Thieves break through and steal. 2. The testimony of David's conscience for him that he had held fast his religion when he was stripped of every thing else, as Job did when the bands of the Chaldeans and Sabeans had robbed him: But I have not forgotten thy law. No care nor grief should drive God's word out of our minds, or hinder our comfortable relish of it and converse with it. Nor must we ever think the worse of the ways of God for any trouble we meet with in those ways, nor fear being losers by our religion at last, however we may be losers for it now.
Cross-references: Ps 119:51