God’s Word Translation
Psalms 119:40
40I long for your guiding principles. Give me a new life in your righteousness.
Psalms 119:40 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
- New International Version (NIV)How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness.
Context of Psalms 119:40
38Keep your promise to me so that I can fear you. 39Take away insults, which I dread, because your regulations are good. I long for your guiding principles. Give me a new life in your righteousness. 41Let your blessings reach me, O Lord. Save me as you promised. 42Then I will have an answer for the one who insults me since I trust your word.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:40 word by word
הִ֭נֵּה תָּאַ֣בְתִּי לְפִקֻּדֶ֑יךָ בְּצִדְקָתְךָ֥ חַיֵּֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:40
- Psalms 119:5I pray that my ways may become firmly established so that I can obey your laws.
- Matthew 26:41Stay awake, and pray that you won’t be tempted. You want to do what’s right, but you’re weak.”
- Romans 7:24What a miserable person I am! Who will rescue me from my dying body?
- 2 Corinthians 7:1Since we have these promises, dear friends, we need to cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit and live a holy life in the fear of God.
- Galatians 5:17What your corrupt nature wants is contrary to what your spiritual nature wants, and what your spiritual nature wants is contrary to what your corrupt nature wants. They are opposed to each other. As a result, you don’t always do what you intend to do.
- Philippians 3:13Brothers and sisters, I can’t consider myself a winner yet. This is what I do: I don’t look back, I lengthen my stride, and
- Psalms 119:25I am close to death. Give me a new life as you promised.
- Mark 9:24The child’s father cried out at once, “I believe! Help my lack of faith.”
- John 5:21In the same way that the Father brings back the dead and gives them life, the Son gives life to anyone he chooses.
- John 10:10A thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I came so that my sheep will have life and so that they will have everything they need.
- 1 Corinthians 15:45This is what Scripture says: “The first man, Adam, became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
- Ephesians 2:5We were dead because of our failures, but he made us alive together with Christ. (It is God’s kindness that saved you.)
- 3 John 1:2Dear friend, I know that you are spiritually well. I pray that you’re doing well in every other way and that you’re healthy.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 40Behold, I have longed - Thou searchest the heart; thou knowest that I have long desired thy salvation; thou seest that this desire still remains. Behold it! it is thy work; and through thy mercy I breathe after thy mercy. Quicken me - I am dying; O give me the spirit of life in Christ Jesus!Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts - I have earnestly desired them. See the notes at Psalm 119:20. Quicken me in thy righteousness - Make me to live; to live in obedience to thy righteous laws. See Psalm 119:25, note; Psalm 119:37, note.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 33-40Verses 33-40 Teach me thy statutes, not the mere words, but the way of applying them to myself. God, by his Spirit, gives a right understanding. But the Spirit of revelation in the word will not suffice, unless we have the Spirit of wisdom in the heart. God puts his Spirit within us, causing us to walk in his statutes. The sin here prayed against is covetousness. Those that would have the love of God rooted in them, must get the love of the world rooted…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 33-40He (ה) is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It marks the beginning of the next section of this psalm. As a student, the poet asks his teacher, God, to renew life and to transform disgrace into righteousness.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 39-4039-40. Our hope of freedom from the reproach of inconsistency is in God's power, quickening us to live according to His Word, which He leads us to love. for thy judgments are good--The time must therefore be at hand when Thy justice will turn the "reproach" from Thy Church upon the world (Is 25:8; 66:5; Zep 2:8-10). VAU. (Psa 119:41-48).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 119
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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