Psalm 119:87 {118:87}
Good News Translation
They have almost succeeded in killing me, but I have not neglected your commands.

New Revised Standard Version
They have almost made an end of me on earth; but I have not forsaken your precepts.

Contemporary English Version
They have almost killed me, but I have been faithful to your teachings.

New American Bible
They have almost put an end to me on earth, but I do not forsake your precepts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.

almost

1 Samuel 20:3 And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and death.

1 Samuel 23:26,27 And Saul went on this side of the mountain: and David and his men were on the other side of the mountain: and David despaired of being able to escape from the face of Saul: and Saul and his men encompassed David and his men round about, to take them. . . .

2 Samuel 17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying: Tarry not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but without delay pass over: lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that is with him.

Matthew 10:28 And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.

but I feared

Psalm 119:51,61 The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law. . . .

1 Samuel 24:6,7 And he said to his men: The Lord be merciful unto me, that I may do no such thing to my master, the Lord's anointed, as to lay my hand upon him, because he is the Lord's anointed. . . .

1 Samuel 26:9,24 And David said to Abisai: Kill him not: for who shall put forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and shall be guiltless? . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
86All thy statutes are truth: they have persecuted me unjustly, do thou help me. 87They had almost made an end of me upon earth: but I have not forsaken thy commandments.88Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:88
Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.

Proverbs 4:2
For I also was my father's son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother:

Isaiah 58:2
For they seek me from day to day, and desire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done justice, and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God: they ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God.

Psalm 119:86
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