Matthew Henry Commentary Psalms 119:49-56

"Remember the word unto thy servant, Because thou hast made me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me. The proud have had me greatly in derision: [Yet] have I not swerved from thy law. I have remembered thine ordinances of old, O Jehovah, And have comforted myself. Hot indignation hath taken hold upon me, Because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Thy statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage. I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, And have observed thy law. This I have had, Because I have kept thy precepts. HHETH." — Psalms 119:49-56 (ASV)

Those who make God's promises their portion may with humble boldness make them their plea. He who by His Spirit works faith in us will work for us. The word of God speaks comfort in affliction. If, through grace, it makes us holy, there is enough in it to make us at ease in all conditions.

Let us be certain we have the Divine law for what we believe, and then do not let scoffers prevail upon us to turn away from it. God's judgments of old comfort and encourage us, for He is still the same. Sin is horrible in the eyes of all who are sanctified.

Before long the believer will be absent from the body and present with the Lord. In the meantime, the statutes of the Lord supply subjects for grateful praise. In the season of affliction, and in the silent hours of the night, he remembers the name of the Lord and is stirred up to keep the law.

All who have made religion the first thing will acknowledge that they have been inexpressible gainers by it.