Psalms 119:40
How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
In Context
39Turn away the disgrace I dread, for Your judgments are good.
41May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
Psalms 119:25My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
Psalms 119:88Revive me according to Your loving devotion, that I may obey the testimony of Your mouth.
Psalms 119:149Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
Psalms 119:159Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
Mark 9:24Immediately the boy’s father cried out with tears, “Lord, I do believe; help my unbelief!”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:40
39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good. Here, 1. David prays against reproach, as before, v. 22 . David was conscious to himself that he had done that which might give occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, which would blemish his own reputation and turn to the dishonour of his family; now he prays that God, who has all men's hearts and tongues in his hands, would be pleased to prevent this, to deliver him from all his transgressions, that he might not be the reproach of the… Read the whole commentary →