Psalms 119:154
Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
In Context
153Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
155Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:15May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”
Job 5:8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
Psalms 35:23Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
Psalms 119:25My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
Psalms 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
Jeremiah 11:20O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed 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 →