Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

Bible References

Trouble

Psalm 119:107

I am greatly afflicted;
Renew and revive me [giving me life], O Lord, according to Your word.
Psalm 18:4

The cords of death surrounded me,
And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.
Psalm 88:3

For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near the grave (Sheol, the place of the dead).
Psalm 116:3

The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.
Psalm 130:1
Out of the depths [of distress] I have cried to You, O Lord.
Mark 14:33
He took Peter and James and John with Him, and He began to be deeply distressed and troubled [extremely anguished at the prospect of what was to come].

Yet thy

Psalm 119:16

I will delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.
Job 23:12

“I have not departed from the commandment of His lips;
I have kept the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
John 4:34
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work.