This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
This comfort belongs within a psalm that exalts God's law as the rule of life, defining righteousness and distinguishing right from wrong and truth from error. God's word comforts in affliction by giving life, renewing and sustaining the one who trusts it and giving strength. Its promises bring comfort even in severe illness and in low times. Depending on that word as guide and instructor arms believers to stand against the enemy's temptations. The verse upholds the sacredness of God's law and is proclaimed with solemn earnestness to declare that the wickedness of the world has reached the point where the Lord will certainly intervene.
This comfort belongs within a psalm that exalts God's law as the rule of life, defining righteousness and distinguishing right from wrong and truth from error. God's word comforts in affliction by giving life, renewing and sustaining the one who trusts it and giving strength. Its promises bring comfort even in severe illness and in low times. Depending on that word as guide and instructor arms believers to stand against the enemy's temptations. The verse upholds the sacredness of God's law and is proclaimed with solemn earnestness to declare that the wickedness of the world has reached the point where the Lord will certainly intervene.