Psalms 119:159

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Consider	רְ֭אֵה Re.'eh	H7200	to see · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular
love	אָהָ֑בְתִּי 'a.Ha.ve.ti	H157	to have affection for (sexually or otherwise) · verb, qal perfect, 1st person common singular
precepts	פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ fi.ku.Dei.cha	H6490	properly · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
quicken	חַיֵּֽנִי chai.Ye.ni	H2421	to live · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix
LORD	יְ֝הוָ֗ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
lovingkindness	כְּֽחַסְדְּךָ֥ ke.chas.de.Kha	H2617	kindness · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Psalms 119:97 O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Psalms 119:153 Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
2 Kings 20:3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in th…
Nehemiah 5:19 Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
Nehemiah 13:22 And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day.…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:159

Here is, 1. David's appeal to God concerning his love to his precepts: "Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love them; consider it then, and deal with me as thou usest to deal with those that love thy word, which thou hast magnified above all thy name." He does not say, "Consider how I fulfil thy precepts;" he was conscious to himself that in many things he came short; but, "Consider how I love them." Our obedience is pleasing to God, and pleasant to ourselves, only when it comes from a principle of love. 2. His petition thereupon: "Quicken me, to do my duty with vigour; revive me, keep me alive, not according to any merit of mine, though I love thy word, but according to thy…

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John Gill on Psalms 119:159

Consider how I love thy precepts,.... How ardently and affectionately, how cordially and sincerely, Psalm 119:127; and that was the reason why he was so grieved and distressed when wicked men transgressed and despised them; quicken me, O Lord, according to thy loving kindness; See Gill on Psalm 119:88.

John Calvin on Psalms 119:153-160

Psalm 119:153-160 153. r Behold my affliction, and rescue me: for I have not forgotten thy law. 154. r Debate my cause, and redeem me: quicken thy according to thy word. 155. r Safety is far from the wicked; because they have not sought thy statutes. 156. r O Jehovah! Thy tender mercies are many: quicken me according to thy judgments. 157. r My persecutors and oppressors are many: [27] I have not swerved from thy testimonies. 158. r I saw the perfidious, and chid them; because they have not kept thy word. 159. r Behold O Jehovah! how have loved thy commandments: quicken me according to thy loving kindness. 160. r The beginning [literally, the head [28] ] of thy word is truth; and all the ju…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:153-160

The eightfold Resh. Because God cannot suffer those who are faithful to His word to succumb, he supplicates His help against his persecutors. ריבה is Milra before the initial (half-guttural) Resh, as in Psa 43:1; Psa 74:22. The Lamed of לאמרתך is the Lamed of reference (with respect to Thine utterance), whether the reference be normative (= כאמרתך, Psa 119:58), as in Isa 11:3, or causal, Isa 25:2, Isa 55:5; Job 42:5. The predicate רחוק, like ישׂר in Psa 119:137, stands first in the primary, as yet indefinite form. Concerning Psa 119:156 vid., on Psa 119:149. At the sight of the faithless he felt a profound disgust; ואתקוטטה, pausal aorist, supply בּהם, Psa 139:21. It is all the same in the e…

The Church Fathers

And he commends himself as differing from them, and says, "Behold, how I have loved Your commandments" [Psalm 119:159]. He says not, I have not denied Your words or testimonies, as the Martyrs were urged to do, and, when they refused, suffered intolerable torments: but he said this wherein is the fruit of all sufferings; for, "if I give up my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing." [1 Corinthians 13:3] The Psalmist, praising this virtue, says, "Behold, how I have loved Your commandments." Then he asks his reward, "O Lord, quicken me, according to Your mercy." These put me to death, do Thou quicken me. But if a reward be asked of mercy, which justice is bound to give; how much greater is that mercy, which enabled him to gain the victory, on account of which the reward was sought for?
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 119

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Dictionary and topics

Poetry — Has been well defined as “the measured language of emotion.” Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man’s relation to God. “Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon,…
Scriptures, The · Saints: Love exceedingly — Saints: Love exceedingly

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:159

John Gill on Psalms 119:159

John Calvin on Psalms 119:153-160

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:153-160

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:159

John Gill on Psalms 119:159

John Calvin on Psalms 119:153-160

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 119:153-160

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 119:153-160