Psalms 119:154
Plead my cause, and deliver me: according to thy promise do thou revive me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
In Context
153RESH. Look on my affliction, and release me; for thy law have I not forgotten.
155Far from the wicked is salvation; because thy statutes have they not sought for.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:15May the Lord therefore be judge, and decide between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and obtain me justice out of thy hand.
Job 5:8I, however, would have besought God, and unto God would I have committed my cause;
Psalms 35:23Arouse thyself, and awake to do me justice, my God and my Lord, unto my cause.
Psalms 119:25DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: revive thou me according to thy word.
Psalms 119:40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: through thy righteousness do thou give my life.
Jeremiah 11:20But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I entrusted my cause.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:154-155
20. RESH. 153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Here, I. David prays for succour in distress. Is any afflicted? let him pray; let him pray as David does here. 1. He has an eye to God's pity, and prays, " Consider my affliction; take it into thy thoughts, and all the circumstances of it, and sit not by as one unconcerned." God is never unmindful of his people's afflictions, but he will have us to put him in… Read the whole commentary →