Psalm 119:92
New International Version
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

New Living Translation
If your instructions hadn’t sustained me with joy, I would have died in my misery.

English Standard Version
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Berean Standard Bible
If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

King James Bible
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

New King James Version
Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction.

New American Standard Bible
If Your Law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my misery.

NASB 1995
If Your law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my affliction.

NASB 1977
If Thy law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my affliction.

Legacy Standard Bible
If Your law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my affliction.

Amplified Bible
If Your law had not been my delight, Then I would have perished in my time of trouble.

Christian Standard Bible
If your instruction had not been my delight, I would have died in my affliction.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If Your instruction had not been my delight, I would have died in my affliction.

American Standard Version
Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If your law had not been my meditation, I would have perished in my affliction.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Were it not that thy law is my meditation, then I should have perished in mine affliction.

Contemporary English Version
If I had not found happiness in obeying your Law, I would have died in misery.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unless thy law had been my meditation, I had then perhaps perished in my abjection.

English Revised Version
Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If your teachings had not made me happy, then I would have died in my misery.

Good News Translation
If your law had not been the source of my joy, I would have died from my sufferings.

International Standard Version
Had your instruction not been my pleasure, I would have died in my affliction.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Unless Thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

Literal Standard Version
Unless Your law [were] my delights, | Then had I perished in my affliction.

Majority Standard Bible
If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction.

New American Bible
Had your law not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

NET Bible
If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.

New Revised Standard Version
If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my misery.

New Heart English Bible
Unless your Law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Webster's Bible Translation
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.

World English Bible
Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

Young's Literal Translation
Unless Thy law were my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
91Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You. 92If Your law had not been my delight, then I would have perished in my affliction. 93I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.…

Cross References
Psalm 119:16
I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.

Psalm 119:50
This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.


Treasury of Scripture

Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.

thy law

Psalm 119:24,77,143
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers…

Romans 15:4
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

I should

Psalm 27:13
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Psalm 94:18,19
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up…

Proverbs 6:22,23
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee…

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














Verse 92. - Unless thy Law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction (comp. vers. 16, 24, 35, 47, 70, 77). Only a real love of God's commandments can sustain men under severe affliction.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If Your law
ת֭וֹרָתְךָ (ṯō·w·rā·ṯə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8451: Direction, instruction, law

had not
לוּלֵ֣י (lū·lê)
Conjunction
Strong's 3884: If not, unless

been my delight,
שַׁעֲשֻׁעָ֑י (ša·‘ă·šu·‘āy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8191: Enjoyment

then
אָ֝֗ז (’āz)
Adverb
Strong's 227: At that time, place, therefore

I would have perished
אָבַ֥דְתִּי (’ā·ḇaḏ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

in my affliction.
בְעָנְיִֽי׃ (ḇə·‘ā·nə·yî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6040: Affliction, poverty


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