Psalm 119:162 {118:162}
Good News Translation
How happy I am because of your promises--as happy as someone who finds rich treasure.

New Revised Standard Version
I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

Contemporary English Version
because they bring happiness like treasures taken in war.

New American Bible
I rejoice at your promise, as one who has found rich spoil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.

rejoice

Psalm 119:72,111 The law of thy mouth is good to me, above thousands of gold and silver. . . .

Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was to me a joy and gladness of my heart: for thy name is called upon me, O Lord God of hosts.

as one

1 Samuel 30:16 And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread abroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.

Proverbs 16:19 It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.

Isaiah 9:3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased the joy. They shall rejoice before thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as conquerors rejoice after taking a prey, when they divide the spoils.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
161Princes have persecuted me without cause: and my heart hath been in awe of thy words. 162I will rejoice at thy words, as one that hath found great spoil.163I have hated and abhorred iniquity; but I have loved thy law.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 30:16
And when he had brought him, behold they were lying spread abroad upon all the ground, eating and drinking, and as it were keeping a festival day, for all the prey and the spoils which they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Juda.

Psalm 119:14
I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.

Psalm 119:111
I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are the joy of my heart.

Isaiah 9:3
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and hast not increased the joy. They shall rejoice before thee, as they that rejoice in the harvest, as conquerors rejoice after taking a prey, when they divide the spoils.

Psalm 119:161
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