Parallel Verses English Standard Version Consider how I love your precepts! Give me life according to your steadfast love. King James Bible Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. American Standard Version Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness. Douay-Rheims Bible Behold I have loved thy commandments, O Lord; quicken me thou in thy mercy. English Revised Version Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. Webster's Bible Translation Consider how I love thy precepts: revive me, O LORD, according to thy loving-kindness. Psalm 119:159 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThe eightfold Resh. Because God cannot suffer those who are faithful to His word to succumb, he supplicates His help against his persecutors. ריבה is Milra before the initial (half-guttural) Resh, as in Psalm 43:1; Psalm 74:22. The Lamed of לאמרתך is the Lamed of reference (with respect to Thine utterance), whether the reference be normative ( equals כאמרתך, Psalm 119:58), as in Isaiah 11:3, or causal, Isaiah 25:2, Isaiah 55:5; Job 42:5. The predicate רחוק, like ישׂר in Psalm 119:137, stands first in the primary, as yet indefinite form. Concerning Psalm 119:156 vid., on Psalm 119:149. At the sight of the faithless he felt a profound disgust; ואתקוטטה, pausal aorist, supply בּהם, Psalm 139:21. It is all the same in the end whether we render אשׁר quippe qui or siquidem. ראשׁ in Psalm 119:160 signifies the head-number of sum. If he reckons up the word of God in its separate parts and as a whole, truth is the denominator of the whole, truth is the sum-total. This supplicatory חיּני is repeated three times in this group. The nearer it draws towards its end the more importunate does the Psalm become. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge consider Psalm 119:97,153 O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day... Nehemiah 5:19 Think on me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people. quicken Psalm 119:88 Quicken me after your loving kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of your mouth. Cross References Psalm 119:25 My soul clings to the dust; give me life according to your word! Psalm 119:47 for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love. Jump to Previous Consider Great Keeping Kindness Love Loving-Kindness Mercy Orders Precepts Preserve Quicken Revive SteadfastJump to Next Consider Great Keeping Kindness Love Loving-Kindness Mercy Orders Precepts Preserve Quicken Revive SteadfastLinks Psalm 119:159 NIVPsalm 119:159 NLT Psalm 119:159 ESV Psalm 119:159 NASB Psalm 119:159 KJV Psalm 119:159 Bible Apps Psalm 119:159 Biblia Paralela Psalm 119:159 Chinese Bible Psalm 119:159 French Bible Psalm 119:159 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |