Psalms 119:25
My soul cleaves unto the dust: you restore life in me according to your word.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
In Context
24Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.leth.
26I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 30:6And the LORD your God will circumcise yours heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all yours heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and you have brought me into the dust of death.
Psalms 44:26Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.
Psalms 80:18So will not we go back from you: quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
Psalms 119:40Behold, I have longed after your precepts: restore life in me in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:93I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have quickened me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:25
24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors. Here David explains his meditating in God's statutes ( v. 23 ), which was of such use to him when princes sat and spoke against him. 1. Did the affliction make him sad? The word of God comforted him, and was his delight, more his delight than any of the pleasures either of court or camp, of city or country. Sometimes it proves that the comforts of the word of God are most pleasant to a gracious soul when other comforts are embittered. 2. Did it perplex… Read the whole commentary →