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Psalm 119:57
The LORD is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
55I have remembered your name, LORD, in the night, and I obey your law.
56This is my way, that I keep your precepts. HETH
57The LORD is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
59I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
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Calling YHWH his portion, the speaker joins contentment in God with a promise to let God's words govern his life.
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Lamentations 3:24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”Both name the LORD as the speaker's portion; Lamentations expresses hope in him, while the psalm expresses a promise to obey.
Psalm 16:5The LORD assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.Both use the language of a portion in relation to the LORD, with Psalm 16 also naming a secure lot.
Psalm 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.Both name God as the speaker's portion; Psalm 73 declares that portion endures even when flesh and heart fail.
Psalm 142:5I cried to you, LORD. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”Both address the LORD as the speaker's portion, with Psalm 142 also naming him as refuge in the land of the living.
Jeremiah 10:16The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the maker of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance. The LORD of Armies is his name.Both identify the LORD as a portion; Jeremiah names him as Jacob's portion and the maker of all things.
Psalm 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.Both express a resolve to obey God's commands, with Psalm 119:115 demanding distance from evildoers.
Joshua 24:21The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the LORD.”Both record a spoken commitment to the LORD: the psalmist promises obedience, and the people pledge service.
Joshua 24:18The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD; for he is our God.”Both connect a declaration about who the LORD is to his people with a commitment to obey or serve him.
Joshua 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods …Both express a firm commitment to the LORD, with Joshua pledging that his household will serve him.
Joshua 24:24–27The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God, and we will listen to his voice.”Both join allegiance to the LORD with attention to what he says: obeying his words and listening to his voice.
Deuteronomy 26:17–18You have declared today that the LORD is your God, and that you would walk in his ways, keep his statutes, his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to …Both link a declaration of belonging to the LORD with a commitment to heed his words.
Nehemiah 10:29–39joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to …Both describe a pledge to obey God's revealed commands; Nehemiah records a shared oath to keep the law given through Moses.
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YHWH himself is the portion named here. Your resolve to obey has a clear direction: the words of the God you treasure.
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