Psalms 119:159
See, for I have loved Your precepts, || YHWH, quicken me according to Your kindness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
In Context
158I have seen treacherous ones, || And grieve myself, || Because they have not kept Your saying.
160The sum of Your word [is] truth, || And every judgment of Your righteousness [is] for all time!
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3“Ah, now, O YHWH, please remember how I have habitually walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and I have done that which [is] good in Your eyes”; and Hezekiah weeps [with] a great weeping.
Nehemiah 13:22And I command to the Levites that they be cleansed, and coming in, keeping the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Also, this, remember for me, O my God, and have pity on me, according to the abundance of Your kindness.
Psalms 119:97[MEM] O how I have loved Your law! It [is] my meditation all the day.
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 →