How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW
- KJV Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
- NKJV Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness. ו Waw
- NASB Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me through Your righteousness. Vav
- NLT I long to obey your commandments! Renew my life with your goodness. Waw
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Quick answer
The psalmist longs for God's precepts and asks to be revived in His righteousness. It matters because heartfelt desire for God's word is met by His life-giving righteousness.
Overview
Closing the Waw stanza, the psalmist expresses his deep longing for God's precepts and prays for renewal grounded in God's righteousness. His hope for life rests on God's just character. This anticipates the gospel, where God's righteousness, revealed in Christ, becomes the source of life for all who long for Him.
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Cross-references · 20
- John 10:10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
- Ps 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
- Ps 119:159Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
- 2 Cor 7:1Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Phil 3:13–14Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
- Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
- Ps 119:25My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
- Matt 26:41“Watch and pray so that you will not enter into temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.”
- Gal 5:17For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.
- 1 Cor 15:45So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being;” the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
- Eph 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
- 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 119:107I am severely afflicted, O LORD; revive me through Your word.
- Ps 119:149Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
- Ps 119:5Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
- 3 Jn 1:2Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers.
- Rom 7:24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
- Mark 9:24Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”
- John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
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