Psalms 119:154
Defend my cause and redeem me: revive me, as you have promised.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
In Context
153Look on my misery, and rescue me; for I do not forget your law.
155Salvation is far from the wicked, for their mind is not in your statutes.
Cross References
Psalms 35:23Bestir you, awake, for my right my God, my Lord, for my cause.
Psalms 119:25I lie grovelling in the dust; revive me, as you have promised.
Psalms 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts. Quicken me in your righteousness.
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 →