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Psalms 119:42

Psalms 119:42 is verse 42 of Psalms chapter 119, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.

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King James Version

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

World English Bible

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

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Psalms 119:40–44 · Berean Standard Bible

40 How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.

41 May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.

42 Then I can answer him who taunts, for I trust in Your word.

43 Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.

44 I will always obey Your law, forever and ever.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 3:2

Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah

Psalms 42:10

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 71:10

For my enemies speak against me, and those who lie in wait for my life conspire,

Psalms 71:11

saying, “God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”

Psalms 109:25

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Matthew 27:40

and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”

Matthew 27:41

In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,

Matthew 27:42

“He saved others, but He cannot save Himself. He is the King of Israel! Let Him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in Him.

Matthew 27:43

He trusts in God. Let God deliver Him now if He wants Him. For He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

Matthew 27:63

“Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

2 Samuel 16:7

And as he yelled curses, Shimei said, “Get out, get out, you worthless man of bloodshed!

2 Samuel 16:8

The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

2 Samuel 19:18

and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king

2 Samuel 19:19

and said, “My lord, do not hold me guilty, and do not remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

2 Samuel 19:20

For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”

Psalms 119:49

Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.

Psalms 119:74

May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.

Psalms 119:81

My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.

Psalms 56:4

In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalms 56:10

In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,

Psalms 56:11

in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Psalms 89:19

You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Psalms 89:20

I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.

Psalms 89:21

My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.

Psalms 89:22

No enemy will exact tribute; no wicked man will oppress him.

Psalms 89:23

I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

Psalms 89:24

My faithfulness and loving devotion will be with him, and through My name his horn will be exalted.

Psalms 89:25

I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand upon the rivers.

Psalms 89:26

He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’

Psalms 89:27

I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Psalms 89:28

I will forever preserve My loving devotion for him, and My covenant with him will stand fast.

Psalms 89:29

I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

Psalms 89:30

If his sons forsake My law and do not walk in My judgments,

Psalms 89:31

if they violate My statutes and fail to keep My commandments,

Psalms 89:32

I will attend to their transgression with the rod, and to their iniquity with stripes.

Psalms 89:33

But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.

Psalms 89:34

I will not violate My covenant or alter the utterance of My lips.

Psalms 89:35

Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—

Psalms 89:36

his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,

Psalms 89:37

like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah

2 Samuel 7:12

And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom.

2 Samuel 7:13

He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

2 Samuel 7:14

I will be his Father, and he will be My son. When he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men.

2 Samuel 7:15

But My loving devotion will never be removed from him as I removed it from Saul, whom I moved out of your way.

2 Samuel 7:16

Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

1 Chronicles 28:3

but God said to me, ‘You are not to build a house for My Name, because you are a man of war who has spilled blood.’

1 Chronicles 28:4

Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:5

And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:6

And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.

Acts 27:25

So take courage, men, for I believe God that it will happen just as He told me.

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