Psalms 119:154
Plead my cause, and deliver me: restore life in me according to your word.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
In Context
153Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.
155Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes.
Cross References
1 Samuel 24:15The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of yours hand.
Job 5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Psalms 35:23Stir up yourself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Psalms 119:25My soul cleaves unto the dust: you restore life in me according to your word.
Psalms 119:40Behold, I have longed after your precepts: restore life in me in your righteousness.
Jeremiah 11:20But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:154-155
20. RESH. 153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law. 154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word. Here, I. David prays for succour in distress. Is any afflicted? let him pray; let him pray as David does here. 1. He has an eye to God's pity, and prays, " Consider my affliction; take it into thy thoughts, and all the circumstances of it, and sit not by as one unconcerned." God is never unmindful of his people's afflictions, but he will have us to put him in… Read the whole commentary →