Psalms 119:40
Behold, I long for your precepts. Quicken me in your righteousness.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
In Context
39Remove the reproach which I dread, because your judgments are good.
41Visit me, Lord, with your love and salvation, as you have promised.
Cross References
Psalms 119:5O to be steadily guided in the keeping of your statutes!
Psalms 119:25I lie grovelling in the dust; revive me, as you have promised.
Psalms 119:88Spare me in your kindness, and I will observe the charge of your mouth.
Psalms 119:149Hear my voice in your kindness: O Lord, by your judgments revive me.
Psalms 119:159Behold how I love your precepts: revive me, O Lord!, in your kindness.
Mark 9:24The boy’s father immediately cried out, “I have faith; help my want of faith!”
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 →