This verse is sometimes misinterpreted as advocating rote recitation or superficial praise of Scripture as a magical formula for protection, detached from genuine faith and relational trust; others erroneously view the repetition as redundancy or a distinction between separate deities rather than poetic emphasis on God's singular, covenantal word, or apply it narrowly to modern Bible veneration while ignoring its original context of David's desperate pleas for deliverance in Psalm 56.
Psalms 56:10
King James Version (1769)
10 In God will I praise his word: in the Lord will I praise his word.
Psalms 56:10 captures David's profound trust in God's reliable promises amid persecution, emphatically declaring his commitment to praise God's word under both 'God' (Elohim) and 'the LORD' (Yahweh), highlighting the unified divine faithfulness that sustains him through fear and enemy threats, reinforcing the theme of the entire psalm that God's word is a refuge stronger than human adversaries.