Psalms 119:88
Spare me in your kindness, and I will observe the charge of your mouth.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
In Context
87They had nearly made an end of me, yet I did not forget your precepts.
89Forever, O Lord, is your word fixed firmly in the heavens.
Cross References
Psalms 78:5He set up a testimony in Jacob, a law he appointed in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to make known to their children,
Psalms 119:25I lie grovelling in the dust; revive me, as you have promised.
Psalms 119:124Deal in your love with your servant, and teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119:149Hear my voice in your kindness: O Lord, by your judgments revive me.
Psalms 132:12If your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons, too, forever, will sit on your throne.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:86-88
85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. 86 All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me. 87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts. David's state was herein a type and figure of the state both of Christ and Christians that he was grievously persecuted; as there are many of his psalms, so there are many of the verses of this psalm, which complain of this, as those here. Here observe, I. The account he gives of his… Read the whole commentary →