Psalms 119:159
in Psalms 119Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness.
KJV
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness.
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This verse in Psalms 119
Commentary
2 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
(Compare Ps 119:121-126, 153-155). quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness-- (Ps 119:88). This prayer occurs here for the ninth time, showing a deep sense of frailty.
This site's exposition
Look upon my affliction and rescue me
on Psalms 119:153-160
He asks God to look at the affliction and to defend his cause. Salvation stays far from the wicked, and the reason given is their own refusal to seek the statutes. Verse 160 states it whole: the entirety of the word is truth.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רְ֭אֵה | reeh | see | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ | fikudeicha | precepts your | H6490 → | 24 times |
| אָהָ֑בְתִּי | ʾahaveti | I love | H157 → | 211 times |
| יְ֝הוָ֗ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| כְּֽחַסְדְּךָ֥ | kechasdekha | according to covenant loyalty your | H2617 → | 247 times |
| חַיֵּֽנִי׃ | chaiyeni | preserve alive me | H2421 → | 282 times |
רְ֭אֵהsee
reehH7200 →1300 times
כִּי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָprecepts your
fikudeichaH6490 →24 times
אָהָ֑בְתִּיI love
ʾahavetiH157 →211 times
יְ֝הוָ֗הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
כְּֽחַסְדְּךָ֥according to covenant loyalty your
kechasdekhaH2617 →247 times
חַיֵּֽנִי׃preserve alive me
chaiyeniH2421 →282 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Nehemiah 5:19Remember me favorably, O my God, for all that I have done for this people.
it leads to
- Nehemiah 13:31
I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 13:31
Through
2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
it leads to
- Nehemiah 13:14
Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 13:22
Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember me for this as well, O my God, and show me mercy according…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 13:14
Through
Psalms 119:97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
it leads to
- Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
- Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
- Psalms 119:48
I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
- Joshua 1:8
This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper…
- Deuteronomy 17:19
It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all…
- Psalms 1:2
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Psalms; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
