Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.
Parallel translations
- KJV Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
- BSB Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
- NKJV Consider how I love Your precepts; Revive me, O Lord, according to Your lovingkindness.
- NASB Consider how I love Your precepts; Revive me, Lord, according to Your faithfulness.
- NLT See how I love your commandments, Lord. Give back my life because of your unfailing love.
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Quick answer
He asks God to note how he loves His precepts and to revive him by His loving kindness. Love for the Word and reliance on God's mercy go together.
Overview
The psalmist invites God to 'consider' his genuine love for God's precepts, yet he still appeals for life on the basis of God's 'loving kindness,' not his love. Even sincere devotion rests on God's mercy as its ground. This pattern, loving God's Word while depending wholly on His covenant love, is the believer's life in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Ps 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
- Ps 119:153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
- Neh 5:19Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
- 2 Kgs 20:3“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Neh 13:22I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
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