Psalms 119:88
By your steadfast love, keep me alive, 1 so that I may obey your commands. LAMEDH 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
In Context
87They have almost made an end to me on earth, 1 but I do not reject your instructions. 1
89Yahweh, your word stands forever; 1 your word is established firmly in heaven. 1
Cross References
Psalms 78:5For he established covenant decrees in Jacob 1 and appointed a law in Israel. 1 He commanded our ancestors 1 that they were to teach them to their children. 1
Psalms 119:25My life clings to the dust! 1 Give me life by your word. 1
Psalms 119:124Show your servant your covenant faithfulness, 1 and teach me your statutes. 1
Psalms 119:149Hear my voice in your covenant faithfulness; 1 keep me alive, Yahweh, as you have promised in your righteous decrees. 1
Psalms 132:12If your sons keep my covenant 1 and the laws that I will teach them, 1 their children also will sit on your throne forevermore.” 1
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 →