Psalms 119:88
According to thy lovingkindness, give thou me life, so will I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
In Context
87A little more, and they had consumed me in the earth, but, I, forsake not thy precepts.
89[LAMED.] Age-abidingly, O Yahweh, hath thy word been set up in the heavens.
Cross References
Psalms 78:5When he set up a testimony in Jacob, And, a law, appointed in Israel,—Which he commanded our fathers, That they might make them known to their children;
Psalms 119:25[DALETH.] My soul, cleaveth to the dust, Give me life, according to thy word.
Psalms 119:124Deal with thy servant according to thy lovingkindness, and, thy statutes, teach thou me.
Psalms 119:149My voice, O hear, according to thy lovingkindness, O Yahweh! according to thy wont, give me life.
Psalms 132:12If thy sons keep my covenant, and my testimony which I will teach them, even their sons, unto futurity, shall sit on thy throne.
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 →