Unless thy law [had been] my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Ver. 92. Unless thy law had been my delight] Unless it had been settled in my heart (as well as it is in heaven) for my singular comfort, I had been crushed.
I should then (or long since) have perished] The Landgrave of Hesse told me at Dresden, saith Melancthon, that it had been impossible for him to have borne up under the manifold miseries of so long an imprisonment, nisi habuisset consolationem ex verbo divino in suo corde, but for the comforts of the Scriptures in his heart (Joh. Manl. loc. com. 139).