Main Idea: The Word of the Lord serves as a great provision in the midst of persecution.

The Word Provides Hope and Comfort in the Face of Persecution

• 49 Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.
  • Lamentations 3:22–24
• 50, 52 This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life. When I think of your rules from of old, I take comfort, O Lord.
  • 2 Corinthians 1:3–7

The Word Reveals the Character and Foolishness of Our Persecutors

• 51 The insolent utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.
  • Proverbs 21:24
  • Psalm 1:1, 2
• 53 Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.
  • Proverbs 6:16–19

The Word Provides For Our Worship During Times of Persecution

• 54–56 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning. I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and keep your law. This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.
  • Ephesians 5:19, 20
  • Psalm 91:3–6

So What?

• Where do I go in the face of persecution?
  • Psalm 23:1–6