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Psalm 119:92

Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

90Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth, and it remains.
91Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.
92Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.
93I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
94I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
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The word “perished” gives this testimony its weight: delight in God’s law mattered when affliction threatened the writer’s life.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 1:2but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.Both describe delight in God’s law, with Psalm 1 naming the day-and-night meditation that accompanies that delight.
Psalm 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”Both express delight connected with God’s law; Psalm 40 also speaks of doing God’s will and keeping his law within the heart.
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 describe help through Scripture: the psalm speaks of surviving affliction, while Romans names perseverance, encouragement, and hope.
Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,Both writers speak of delight in God’s law, with Romans locating that delight in the inward person.
Psalm 19:8The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.Both connect God’s instruction with joy: Psalm 119 names delight in his law, and Psalm 19 describes precepts that rejoice the heart.
Proverbs 6:22–23When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.Both describe sustaining help: delight in God’s law amid affliction, and guidance and protection through waking and sleeping.
Psalm 119:143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.Both speak of delight in God’s commands amid suffering, without suggesting that delight makes trouble disappear.
Proverbs 21:15It is joy to the righteous to do justice; but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.The shared thread is joy connected with what is right: delight in God’s law and joy in doing justice.
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Encouragement

Affliction and delight share the same sentence. The writer credits God’s law with sustaining him through suffering, even as the pain remains part of his testimony.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).