Psalms 119:124
Deal with Your servant according to Your loving devotion, and teach me Your statutes.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
In Context
123My eyes fail, looking for Your salvation, and for Your righteous promise.
125I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
Psalms 51:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 69:16Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
Psalms 103:10He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.
Psalms 119:26I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.
Psalms 119:76May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:124
123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. David, being oppressed, is here waiting and wishing for the salvation of the Lord, which would make him easy. 1. He cannot but think that it comes slowly: My eyes fail for thy salvation. His eyes were towards it and had been long so. He looked for help from heaven (and we deceive ourselves if we look for it any other way), but it did not come so soon as he expected, so that his eyes began to fail, and he was sometimes ready to despair,… Read the whole commentary →