Psalms 119:20
My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your judgments at all times.
Updated King James Version
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 in the earth: hide not your commandments from me.
21You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do go astray from your commandments.
Cross References
Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Psalms 63:1O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalms 106:3Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that does righteousness at all times.
Psalms 119:131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for your commandments.
Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
Song of Solomon 5:8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if all of you find my beloved, that all of you tell him, that I am sick of 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 →