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SHIN<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n
\n

161\u00a0<\/sup>Princes persecute me without a cause,<\/span><\/em>
\nBut my heart stands in awe of Your word.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

162 <\/sup>I rejoice at Your word<\/span><\/em>
\nAs one who finds great treasure.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

163 <\/sup>I hate and abhor lying,<\/span><\/em>
\nBut I love Your law.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

164 <\/sup>Seven times a day I praise You,<\/span><\/em>
\nBecause of Your righteous judgments.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

165 <\/sup>Great peace have those who love Your law,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd nothing causes them to stumble.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

166 <\/sup>Lord<\/span>, I hope for Your salvation,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd I do Your commandments.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

167 <\/sup>My soul keeps Your testimonies,<\/span><\/em>
\nAnd I love them exceedingly.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

168 <\/sup>I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,<\/span><\/em>
\nFor all my ways are before You.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

This division is remarkable in that it is one of the only two which contain no petition (the other was 97-104<\/span><\/a>). This is a pure psalm of thanksgiving. \u2014 Morgan, pages 246-247.<\/span><\/h3>\n

lying (v.163) \u2014 often refers to false gods<\/h3>\n

seven (v.164) \u2014 perfection, here indicating unceasing praise.<\/h3>\n

Only a perfect Believer could make the statements of the last three verses. Such a Believer was Jesus of Nazareth. But the verses set up the standard which His followers should aim at. \u2014 Williams, page 398.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SHIN 161\u00a0Princes persecute me without a cause, But my heart stands in awe of Your word. 162 I rejoice at Your word As one who finds great treasure. 163 I hate and abhor lying, But I love Your law. 164 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8463,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8462\/revisions\/8463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}