Tree of Life Version
Psalms 119:40
40Behold, I long for Your precepts. Revive me by 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
38Fulfill Your word to Your servant, which leads to reverence for You. 39Make the disgrace I dread pass away, for Your judgments are good. Behold, I long for Your precepts. Revive me by Your righteousness. 41May Your lovingkindnesses come to me, Adonai— Your salvation according to Your word— 42so I may answer the one taunting me, for I trust in 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 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to observe Your decrees!
- Matthew 26:41Keep watching and praying, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
- Romans 7:24Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
- 2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, since we have these promises, loved ones, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Galatians 5:17For the flesh sets its desire against the Ruach, but the Ruach sets its desire against the flesh—for these are in opposition to one another, so that you cannot do what you want.
- Philippians 3:13Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself as having taken hold of this. But this one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
- Psalms 119:25My soul clings to the dust. Revive me according to Your word!
- Mark 9:24Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I believe! Help my unbelief!”
- John 5:21For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever He wants.
- John 10:10The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. I have come that they might have life, and have it abundantly!
- 1 Corinthians 15:45So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
- Ephesians 2:5Even when we were dead in our trespasses, He made us alive together with Messiah. (By grace you have been saved!)
- 3 John 1:2Loved ones, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, just as it is well with your soul.
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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