Psalms 119:159 ASV — MannaFest

Psalms 119:159

Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness.

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KJV

Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness.

WEB

Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.

YLT

See, for thy precepts I have loved, Jehovah, According to Thy kindness quicken me.

DBT

See how I have loved thy precepts: quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy loving-kindness.

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(Compare Ps 119:121-126, 153-155). quicken me, O Lord, according to thy lovingkindness-- (Ps 119:88). This prayer occurs here for the ninth time, showing a deep sense of frailty.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!
Psalms 119:97
Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.
Psalms 119:25
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: Quicken thou me according to thy word.
Psalms 119:40
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness. ו VAV.
Psalms 119:153
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.
Psalms 119:88
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; So shall I observe the testimony of thy mouth. ל LAMEDH.
2 Kings 20:3
Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Nehemiah 13:22
And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember unto me, O my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy lovingkindness.
Nehemiah 5:19
Remember unto me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
Psalms 119:167
My soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

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About this book

Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page, and every stop travels with its words.

Through
Nehemiah 5:19
Remember unto me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
leads to
- Nehemiah 13:31
  and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Through
2 Kings 20:3
Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
leads to
- Nehemiah 13:14
  Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the observances thereof.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Nehemiah 13:22
  And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember unto me, O my God, this also, and spare…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Psalms 119:97
Oh how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.
leads to
- Psalms 1:2
  But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.
- Proverbs 2:10
  For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
- Psalms 119:48
  I will lift up my hands also unto thy commandments, which I have loved; And I will meditate on thy statutes. ז ZAYIN.
- Joshua 1:8
  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for…
- Deuteronomy 17:19
  and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law…

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