Psalms 119:20
My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
In Context
19I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
Cross References
Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
Psalms 63:1God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Psalms 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
Psalms 119:131I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for your commandments.
Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
Song of Solomon 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:20
19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. Here we have, 1. The acknowledgment which David makes of his own condition: I am a stranger in the earth. We all are so, and all good people confess themselves to be so; for heaven is their home, and the world is but their inn, the land of their pilgrimage. David was a man that knew as much of the world, and was as well known in it, as most men. God built him a house, established his throne; strangers submitted to him, and people that he had not… Read the whole commentary →