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Psalms 119:20
20I am always overwhelmed with a desire for your regulations.
Psalms 119:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
- New International Version (NIV)My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My soul breaks with longing For Your judgments at all times.
Context of Psalms 119:20
18Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions. 19I am only a foreigner in the land. Don’t hide your commands from me! I am always overwhelmed with a desire for your regulations. 21You rebuke the arrogant; those who wander from your commands are cursed. 22Don’t let them scorn and insult me, for I have obeyed your laws.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:20 word by word
גָּרְסָ֣ה נַפְשִׁ֣י לְתַאֲבָ֑ה אֶֽל־מִשְׁפָּטֶ֥יךָ בְכָל־עֵֽת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:20
- Psalms 119:40I long to obey your commandments! Renew my life with your goodness.
- Psalms 42:1As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.
- Psalms 63:1O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you; my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water.
- Psalms 84:2I long, yes, I faint with longing to enter the courts of the Lord. With my whole being, body and soul, I will shout joyfully to the living God.
- Proverbs 13:12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.
- Revelation 3:15“I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other!
- Psalms 106:3There is joy for those who deal justly with others and always do what is right.
- Job 23:11For I have stayed on God’s paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside.
- Job 27:10Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time?
- Proverbs 17:17A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20My soul breaketh - We have a similar expression: It broke my heart, That is heart-breaking, She died of a broken heart. It expresses excessive longing, grievous disappointment, hopeless love, accumulated sorrow. By this we may see the hungering and thirsting which the psalmist had after righteousness, often mingled with much despondency.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20My soul breaketh - This word means to break; to crush; to break in pieces by scraping, rubbing, or grating. The idea would seem to be, not that he was crushed as by a single blow, but that his soul - his strength - was worn away by little and little. The desire to know more of the commands of God acted continually on him, exhausting his strength, and overcoming him. He so longed for God that, in our language, “it wore upon him” - as any ungratified desire…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 17-24Verses 17-24 If God deals in strict justice with us, we all perish. We ought to spend our lives in his service; we shall find true life in keeping his word. Those that would see the wondrous things of God's law and gospel, must beg him to give them understanding, by the light of his Spirit. Believers feel themselves strangers on earth; they fear missing their way, and losing comfort by erring from God's commandments. Every sanctified soul hungers after…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-21The arrogant are probably those who mock the psalmist (Psalm 119:22–23).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 17-2017-20. Life is desirable in order to serve God; that we may do so aright, we should seek to have our eyes opened to behold His truth, and earnestly desire fully to understand it.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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