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Psalm 119:50
This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
48I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN
49Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
50This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
52I remember your ordinances of old, LORD, and have comforted myself.
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Comfort and affliction share the same sentence: God's word has revived the speaker, who still speaks from within trouble.
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John 6:63It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.The psalm credits God's word with reviving the speaker; Jesus says the words he speaks are spirit and life.
Romans 15:4For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.Both connect Scripture with help amid hardship: the psalm names comfort in affliction, and Romans names perseverance, encouragement, and hope.
Psalm 94:19In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.Both speakers find comfort from God amid distress, described as affliction in Psalm 119 and a multitude of thoughts in Psalm 94.
Psalm 28:7The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.Both speakers testify to help received from God: one has been revived through his word, and the other names him as strength.
Psalm 119:93I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.Both verses credit God's instruction with reviving the speaker, linking his word and precepts with renewed life.
Psalm 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.Both speak from distress while looking to God for help; Psalm 119 names comfort received, while Psalm 42 voices hope.
Hebrews 6:17–19In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,Both concern God's spoken assurance: the psalm names his reviving word, while Hebrews names his promise confirmed with an oath.
Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Armies.God's words affect both speakers: the psalmist finds comfort and renewed life, while Jeremiah describes joy and rejoicing.
Romans 5:3–5Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;Both speak of good within suffering: the psalm names comfort through God's word, while Romans says suffering produces perseverance.
James 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.Both connect God's word with life: the psalm speaks of being revived, and James speaks of birth through the word of truth.
Ezekiel 37:10So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceedingly great army.Both describe life renewed through God's action, though Ezekiel depicts people standing alive and the psalm speaks of comfort in affliction.
Colossians 2:13You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,Both describe life received from God; Colossians connects being made alive with forgiveness, while the psalm connects revival with God's word.
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Grief. chronic pain. illness or diagnosis.
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The speaker names affliction without withdrawing his claim of comfort. God's word has revived him within trouble; the verse makes no claim that suffering has ended.
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