Psalms 119:88
Because you faithfully love me, allow me to continue to live in order that I may continue to obey ◄your rules/what you have instructed us to do►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
In Context
89Yahweh, your words will last forever; they will last as long as heaven lasts.
Cross References
Psalms 78:5He gave laws and commandments to the Israeli people, those who are the descendants of Jacob [DOU], and he told our ancestors to teach them to their children
Psalms 119:25I think that I will soon die [IDM]; revive/heal me, as you have told me that you would.
Psalms 119:124Do something for me to show that you faithfully love me, and teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.
Psalms 119:149Yahweh, because you faithfully love me, listen to me while I pray, and keep me safe because of my obeying ◄your regulations/what you have told us to do►.
Psalms 132:12If they keep my agreement with them and obey all the commands that I will give them, the line of kings descended from you will never end.”
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 →