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With all my heart I want your blessings. Be merciful as you promised.
Psalms 119:58 · New Living Translation
Parallel translations
  • WEB I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
  • KJV I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
  • BSB I have sought Your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to Your promise.
  • NKJV I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; Be merciful to me according to Your word.
  • NASB I sought Your favor with all my heart; Be gracious to me according to Your word.

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Quick answer

The psalmist seeks God's favor wholeheartedly and asks for mercy according to His promise. It matters because God's grace is sought earnestly and received on the basis of His word.

Overview

With his whole heart, the psalmist entreats God's favor and pleads for mercy grounded in God's promise. He seeks grace sincerely, not half-heartedly. This wholehearted appeal for mercy is fully answered in the gospel, where God's favor rests on sinners through the promise fulfilled in Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Ps 119:41Let your loving kindness also come to me, Yahweh, your salvation, according to your word.
  • Heb 10:22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
  • Ps 119:10With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
  • Ps 119:170Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.
  • 1 Kgs 13:6The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.
  • Ps 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
  • Ps 4:6Many say, “Who will show us any good?” Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
  • Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
  • Ps 119:76Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
  • Job 11:19Also you shall lie down, and no one shall make you afraid. Yes, many shall court your favor.
  • Ps 51:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
  • Ps 138:2I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.
  • Ps 56:4In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
  • Ps 119:65Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh.
  • Ps 86:1–3A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
  • Hos 7:14They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
  • Ps 56:10In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.

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Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 119:58 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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