Psalms 119:143 meaning and explanation
Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
Psalms 119:143, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the psalmist, an unnamed servant of God who has spent this long acrostic poem describing a life shaped by Scripture while under pressure from arrogant rulers and mockers. Here he admits that trouble and distress have found him, using a Hebrew word for distress, tsar, that suggests being hemmed in or squeezed.
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