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New King James Version

Psalms 119:131

I opened my mouth and panted, For I longed for Your commandments.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Thompson Chain Reference - Desire;   Desire-Satisfaction;   Hunger;   Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I open my mouth and pantbecause I long for your commands.
Hebrew Names Version
I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for your mitzvot.
King James Version
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
English Standard Version
I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments.
New Century Version
I am nearly out of breath. I really want to learn your commands.
New English Translation
I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commands.
Amplified Bible
I opened my mouth and panted [with anticipation], Because I longed for Your commandments.
New American Standard Bible
I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for Your commandments.
World English Bible
I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for your commandments.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I opened my mouth and panted, because I loued thy commaundements.
Legacy Standard Bible
I opened my mouth wide and panted,For I longed for Your commandments.
Berean Standard Bible
I open my mouth and pant, as I long for Your commandments.
Contemporary English Version
I honestly want to know everything you teach.
Complete Jewish Bible
My mouth is wide open, as I pant with longing for your mitzvot.
Darby Translation
I opened my mouth wide and panted; for I longed for thy commandments.
Easy-to-Read Version
My desire to hear your commands is so strong that I wait with open mouth, gasping for breath.
George Lamsa Translation
I opened my mouth, and panted; for I longed for thy commandments.
Good News Translation
In my desire for your commands I pant with open mouth.
Lexham English Bible
I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commands.
Literal Translation
I opened my mouth and panted; for I longed for Your Commands.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I ope my mouth & drawe in my breth, for I desyre thy commaundemetes.
American Standard Version
I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for thy commandments.
Bible in Basic English
My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I opened wide my mouth, and panted; for I longed for Thy commandments.
King James Version (1611)
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy Commandements.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I opened my mouth and panted: for I bare a great affection to thy commaundementes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after thy commandments.
English Revised Version
I opened wide my mouth, and panted; for I longed for thy commandments.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I openede my mouth, and drouy the spirit; for Y desiride thi comaundementis.
Update Bible Version
I opened my mouth wide, and panted; For I longed for your commandments.
Webster's Bible Translation
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
New Living Translation
I pant with expectation, longing for your commands.
New Life Bible
I opened my mouth wide, breathing with desire for Your Law.
New Revised Standard
With open mouth I pant, because I long for your commandments.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My mouth, have I opened wide, and panted, because, for thy commandments, have I longed.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-131) I opened my mouth, and panted: because I longed for thy commandments.
Revised Standard Version
With open mouth I pant, because I long for thy commandments.
Young's Literal Translation
My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I opened my mouth wide and panted, For I longed for Your commandments.

Contextual Overview

131 I opened my mouth and panted, For I longed for Your commandments.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

opened: Psalms 119:20, Psalms 42:1, Isaiah 26:8, Isaiah 26:9, 1 Peter 2:2

I longed: Psalms 119:40, Psalms 119:162, Psalms 119:174, Hebrews 12:14

Reciprocal: Job 7:2 - earnestly desireth Psalms 119:5 - General Psalms 119:15 - meditate Psalms 119:39 - for thy Song of Solomon 2:5 - for Romans 7:24 - wretched

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I opened my mouth, and panted,.... As a person out of breath does, through walking or running; he stops and pants, and opens his mouth, to draw in air to his relief: or as hungry and thirsty persons pant for food and drink, and open their mouths to receive it, before it can well be brought to them. So the psalmist panted after God, and communion with him; desired the sincere milk of the word; longed for the breasts of ordinances, and even fainted for the courts of the Lord,

Psalms 42:1;

for I longed for thy commandments; for an opportunity of waiting upon God in the way of his duty; to hear his word, and attend his worship.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I opened my mouth and panted - All this is the language of deep emotion. We breathe hard under the influence of such emotion; we open the mouth wide, and pant, as the ordinary passage for the air through the nostrils is not sufficient to meet the needs of the lungs in their increased action. The idea is, that his heart was full; that he had such an intense desire as to produce deep and rapid breathing; that he was like one who was exhausted, and who “panted” for breath. Compare the notes at Psalms 42:1.

For I longed for thy commandments - The word here rendered “longed” occurs nowhere else. It means to desire earnestly. See the notes at Psalms 119:20.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:131. I opened my mouth, and panted — A metaphor taken from an animal exhausted in the chase. He runs, open-mouthed, to take in the cooling air; the heart beating high, and the muscular force nearly expended through fatigue. The psalmist sought for salvation, as he would run from a ferocious beast for his life. Nothing can show his earnestness in a stronger point of view.


 
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