Psalms 119:159
Behold that I love thy precepts: O Lord, according to thy kindness do thou revive me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
In Context
158I beheld the treacherous, and felt disgust; because they observed not thy saying.
160The summit of thy word is truth: and the whole of thy righteous judgment endureth for ever.
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now that I have walked before thee in truth, and with an undivided heart, and have done what is good in thy eyes. And Hezekiah wept aloud.
Nehemiah 13:22And I ordered the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep watch at the gates, to sanctify the sabbath-day. Also this remember unto me, O my God, and shield me according to the abundance of thy kindness.
Psalms 119:97MEM. Oh how do I love thy law! all the day is it my meditation.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:159
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. Here is, 1. David's sorrow for the wickedness of the wicked. Though he conversed much at home, yet sometimes he looked abroad, and could not but see the wicked walking on every side. He beheld the transgressors, those whose sins were open before all men, and it grieved him to see them dishonour God, serve Satan, debauch the world, and ruin their own souls, to see the transgressors so numerous, so daring, so very impudent, and so… Read the whole commentary →