My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
Parallel translations
- WEB My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
- KJV My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
- NKJV My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.
- NASB ¶My soul clings to the dust; Revive me according to Your word.
- NLT I lie in the dust; revive me by your word.
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Quick answer
The psalmist, brought low to the dust, prays for revival according to God's word. It matters because God's word is the source of renewed life in seasons of deep distress.
Overview
Opening the Daleth stanza, the psalmist feels his soul clinging to the dust, near despair, yet appeals to God's word to revive him. He grounds his hope of renewal in God's promises. This anticipates the gospel, where the living word of Christ raises those dead in sin to new and lasting life.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 21
- Deut 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- Ps 119:159Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
- Col 3:2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
- Ps 71:20Though You have shown me many troubles and misfortunes, You will revive me once again. Even from the depths of the earth You will bring me back up.
- Ps 44:25For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
- Ps 143:11For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
- Rom 7:22–24For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
- Ps 119:156Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances.
- Ps 119:88Revive me according to Your loving devotion, that I may obey the testimony of Your mouth.
- Ps 119:40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
- Ps 119:93I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.
- Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
- Ps 80:18Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.
- Ps 119:149Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
- Ps 119:107I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.
- Phil 3:19Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.
- Isa 65:25The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
- 2 Sam 7:27–29For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
- Ps 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- Rom 8:2–3For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
- Matt 16:23But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”
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