Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
Psalms 119:155 · WEB
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WEB

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

KJV

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Word study

Salvation yᵉshûwʻâh H3444
is far râchôwq H7350
from the wicked: min H4480
for kîy H3588
they seek dârash H1875
not lôʼ H3808
thy statutes. chôq H2706

Commentary

Matthew Henry

Here is, 1. The description of wicked men. They do not only do God's statutes, but they do not so much as seek them; they do not acquaint themselves with them, nor so much as desire to know their duty, nor in the least endeavour to do it. Those are wicked indeed who do not think the law of God worth enquiring after, but are altogether regardless of it, being resolved to live at large and to walk in the way of their heart. 2. Their doom: Salvation is far from them. They cannot upon any good grounds promise themselves temporal deliverance. Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. How can those expect to seek God's favour with success, when they are in adversity, who never sought his statutes when they were in prosperity? But eternal salvation is certainly far from them. They flatter themselves with a conceit that it is near, and that they are going to heaven; but they are mistaken: it is far from them. They thrust it from them by thrusting the Saviour from them; it is so far from them that they cannot reach it, and the longer they persist in sin the further it is; nay, while salvation is far from them, damnation is near; it slumbers not. Behold, the Judge stands before the door.

John Gill

Consider how I love thy precepts,.... How ardently and affectionately, how cordially and sincerely, Psa 119:127; and that was the reason why he was so grieved and distressed when wicked men transgressed and despised them;

quicken me, O Lord, according to thy loving kindness; See Gill on Psa 119:88.

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