Psalms 119:159
Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, LORD, according to your loving kindness.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
In Context
158I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.
Cross References
2 Kings 20:3“Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
Nehemiah 13:22I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me for this also, my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
Psalms 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:159
158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word. Here is, 1. David's sorrow for the wickedness of the wicked. Though he conversed much at home, yet sometimes he looked abroad, and could not but see the wicked walking on every side. He beheld the transgressors, those whose sins were open before all men, and it grieved him to see them dishonour God, serve Satan, debauch the world, and ruin their own souls, to see the transgressors so numerous, so daring, so very impudent, and so… Read the whole commentary →