Psalms 119:88
Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
In Context
87They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
89LORD, your word is settled in heaven forever.
Cross References
Psalms 78:5For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
Psalms 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
Psalms 119:124Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
Psalms 119:149Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, LORD, according to your ordinances.
Psalms 132:12If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”
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 →