I long for Your salvation, O Lord, And Your law is my delight.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
- KJV I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
- BSB I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
- NASB I long for Your salvation, Lord, And Your Law is my delight.
- NLT O Lord, I have longed for your rescue, and your instructions are my delight.
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Quick answer
He longs for God's salvation, and God's law is his delight. Yearning for deliverance and delighting in the Word go together.
Overview
The psalmist expresses deep longing for God's salvation while finding present 'delight' in God's law. Hope for the future rescue and joy in the Word sustain him now. This longing for salvation is satisfied in Christ, the One in whom God's saving promise becomes reality.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Ps 119:166–167I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.
- Ps 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL
- Ps 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
- Ps 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
- Ps 1:2but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
- Ps 119:162I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
- Phil 1:23But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
- Rom 7:22–25For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,
- Rom 8:23–25Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
- Ps 119:81My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
- Gen 49:18I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
- Prov 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
- Ps 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALED
- 2 Sam 23:5Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he doesn’t make it grow.
- Ps 119:77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- Song 5:8I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.
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