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Psalms 119:20
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I am always overwhelmed with a desire for your regulations.
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
My soul breaks for the longing That it has to your ordinances at all times.
I wear myself out with desire for your laws all the time.
I desperately long to know your regulations at all times.
My soul breaketh for the longing [that it hath] to thy judgments at all times.
My soul is crushed with longing For Your ordinances at all times.
My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
Mi soule coueitide to desire thi iustifiyngis; in al tyme.
My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.
What I want most of all and at all times is to honor your laws.
My soul breaketh for the longing That it hath unto thine ordinances at all times.
My soul is broken with desire for your decisions at all times.
I am continually consumed with longing for your rulings.
My soul breaketh for longing after thy judgments at all times.
I constantly feel a hunger to understand your laws.
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto Thine ordinances at all times.
My soule breaketh for the longing: that it hath vnto thy iudgements at all times.
My soul is crushed with a desire for Your Law at all times.
My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
Mine heart breaketh for the desire to thy iudgements alway.
My soul is pleased and desires thy judgments at all times.
My heart aches with longing; I want to know your judgments at all times.
My soul is crushed with longing for thy just decisions at all times.
(118-20) My soul hath coveted to long for thy justifications, at all times.
My soul is consumed with longing for thy ordinances at all times.
My soule faynteth: for the very feruent desire that it hath alwaye vnto thy iudgementes.
My soul has longed exceedingly for thy judgments at all times.
I am continually overcomewith longing for your judgments.
My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
My soul is crushed with longing for your ordinances at all times.
My soul is breaking for the longing to Your judgments in every season.
Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.
My soule breaketh out, for the very feruent desyre that I haue allwaye vnto thy iudgmentes.
My soul is crushed with longing For Your ordinances at all times.
My soul breaks with longing For Your judgments at all times.
My soul is crushed with longing After Your ordinances at all times.
My soul is crushed with longingFor Your judgments at all times.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
soul: Psalms 119:40, Psalms 119:131, Psalms 119:174, Psalms 42:1, Psalms 63:1, Psalms 84:2, Proverbs 13:12, Song of Solomon 5:8, Revelation 3:15, Revelation 3:16
at all times: Psalms 106:3, Job 23:11, Job 23:12, Job 27:10, Proverbs 17:17
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:8 - The soul Leviticus 20:22 - judgments Deuteronomy 12:20 - I will 2 Samuel 13:39 - longed 1 Chronicles 16:12 - the judgments Psalms 64:9 - fear Psalms 119:39 - for thy Psalms 119:81 - fainteth Romans 7:24 - wretched Galatians 5:17 - the flesh
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My soul breaketh for the longing,.... His heart was just ready to break, and his soul fainted; he was ready to die, through a vehement desire of enjoying the object longed for, after mentioned; "hope deferred makes the heart sick", Proverbs 13:1; the phrase is expressive of the greatness, vehemence, and eagerness of his mind after the thing he desired, which follows:
[that it hath] unto thy judgments at all times; not the judgments of God on wicked men, though these are desirable for the glorifying of his justice; nor his dark dispensations of providence, though good men cannot but desire and long for the time when these judgments shall be made manifest: but rather the righteous laws and precepts of God are designed, which he desired to have a more perfect knowledge of, and yield a more constant obedience unto; or, best of all, the doctrines of grace and righteousness, that should be more clearly revealed in the times of the Messiah; who was to set judgment in the earth, his Gospel; and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and glorify the justice of God; than which nothing was more earnestly and importunately wished and longed for by Old Testament saints; see Psalms 119:81.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My 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 does. It was not the possession of the knowledge of God that exhausted him; it was the intenseness of his desire that he might know more of God.
For the longing - For the earnest desire.
That it hath unto thy judgments at all times - Thy law; thy commands. This was a constant feeling. It was not fitful or spasmodic. It was the steady, habitual state of the soul on the subject. He had never seen enough of the beauty and glory of the law of God to feel that all the needs of his nature were satisfied, or that he could see and know no more; he had seen and felt enough to excite in him an ardent desire to be made fully acquainted with all that there is in the law of God. Compare the notes at Psalms 17:15.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:20. My 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.
