Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. As the sojourner in a strange land sings the loved songs of his home and fatherland, and is cheered by them, so the child of God and heir of heaven, who is but "a stranger in the earth" (Psalms 119:19), beguiles the weariness and sorrows of life with continually thinking and speaking of his Father's words. Laws were in some ancient Greek states put in verse, that they might be the more readily remembered. God's commandments, with their accompanying promises, are ever in the believer's memory, and "give songs in the night" of his adversity (Job 5:10; Acts 16:25; Psalms 149:5).