Psalm 119:49-56 Part 4

                    ZAYIN

Remember your promise to me;

    it is my only hope.

Your promise revives me;

    it comforts me in all my troubles.

The proud hold me in utter contempt,

    but I do not turn away from your instructions.

I meditate on your age-old regulations;

    O LORD, they comfort me.

I become furious with the wicked,

    because they reject your instructions.

Your decrees have been the theme of my songs

    wherever I have lived.

I reflect at night on who you are, O LORD;

    therefore, I obey your instructions..

This is how I spend my life:

    obeying your commandments. 

 

I become furious with the wicked, because they reject your instructions.

Exodus 32:6  

    The people got up early the next morning to sacrifice burnt offerings. After this, they celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.

Exodus 32:19  

    When they came near the camp Moses saw the calf and the dancing, and he burned with anger. He threw the stone tablets to the ground, smashing them at the foot of the mountain.  (see all Exodus 32)

Deuteronomy 9:16-17  

"There below me I could see that you had sinned against the LORD your God. You had melted gold and made a calf idol for yourselves. How quickly you had turned away from the path the LORD had commanded you to follow! So I took the stone tablets and threw them to the ground, smashing them before your eyes."  (see all Deuteronomy 9)

Psalm 119:158  

Seeing these traitors makes me sick at heart,

    because they care nothing for your word.  (see Psalm 119:153-160)

Matthew 21:12-13  

Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out all the people buying and selling animals for sacrifice. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those selling doves. He said to them, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves!"

(see also Mark 11:15-17, Luke 19:45-46, John 2:13-17)   

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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