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Psalm 119:95

The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.

93I will never forget your precepts, for with them, you have revived me.
94I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.
95The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM
97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
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Enemies wait to destroy, while the writer resolves to consider God’s statutes, a turn that makes his chosen focus stand out against the threat.

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Psalm 119:167My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.Both verses express devotion to God’s instruction, one through resolve to consider it and the other through love and obedience.
Psalm 119:110The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.Both verses name the wicked’s plans to harm the writer and his resolve to remain attentive to God’s instruction.
Psalm 119:31I cling to your statutes, LORD. Don’t let me be disappointed.God’s statutes remain the writer’s concern in both verses, whether he speaks of considering them or clinging to them.
Psalm 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.Both verses answer others’ hostile actions with a stated resolve toward God’s instruction, though one names lies and the other destruction.
Acts 23:21Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have …Both texts describe people lying in wait with the intent to kill or destroy someone.
Acts 25:3Both passages describe deliberate plans against someone’s life, with Acts specifying a plot to kill him on the road.
Jeremiah 18:20Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from …Both speakers address God while describing people who have prepared harm against them.
Acts 12:11When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything …Both passages concern danger from hostile people; Peter recounts deliverance, while the psalm leaves the threat unresolved.
Matthew 26:3–5Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.The overlap is slight: both mention groups of people, but only the supplied psalm text states their intent to destroy.
1 Samuel 23:20–23Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”Both passages concern plans against someone, though Samuel’s supplied verse speaks of handing him over rather than destroying him.
2 Samuel 17:1–4Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.Both passages describe planned action against someone, with Ahithophel proposing to pursue David that night.
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Encouragement

The psalm leaves the danger unresolved. Even there, the writer directs his attention toward God’s statutes; those who seek his destruction do not set his course.

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