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Psalms 119:88

Preserve my life according to your lovingkindness, So I will obey the statutes of your mouth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Desire;   Instruction;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Quickening, Spiritual;   Revivals;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Loving-Kindness of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Testimony;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Testimony;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Decree;   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;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Quick;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 31;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
In your unfailing love, spare my life; then I can continue to obey your laws.
English Revised Version
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I observe the testimony of thy mouth.
Update Bible Version
Quicken me after your loving-kindness; So I shall observe the testimony of your mouth.
New Century Version
Give me life by your love so I can obey your rules.
New English Translation
Revive me with your loyal love, that I might keep the rules you have revealed.
Webster's Bible Translation
Revive me after thy loving-kindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Amplified Bible
According to Your steadfast love refresh me and give me life, So that I may keep and obey the testimony of Your mouth.
English Standard Version
In your steadfast love give me life, that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bi thi mersi quikene thou me; and Y schal kepe the witnessingis of thi mouth.
Berean Standard Bible
Revive me according to Your loving devotion, and I will obey the testimony of Your mouth.
Contemporary English Version
Show that you love me and let me live, so that I may obey all of your commands.
American Standard Version
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; So shall I observe the testimony of thy mouth.
Bible in Basic English
Give me life in your mercy; so that I may be ruled by the unchanging word of your mouth.
Complete Jewish Bible
In keeping with your grace, revive me; and I will observe your spoken instructions.
Darby Translation
Quicken me according to thy loving-kindness, and I will keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Easy-to-Read Version
Show me your faithful love and let me live. I will do whatever you say.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Quicken me after Thy lovingkindness, and I will observe the testimony of Thy mouth.
King James Version (1611)
Quicken mee after thy louing kindnesse: so shall I keepe the testimonie of thy mouth.
New Life Bible
Give me life again by Your loving-kindness, and I will keep the Word of Your mouth.
New Revised Standard
In your steadfast love spare my life, so that I may keep the decrees of your mouth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Quicken me according to thy louing kindnes: so shall I keepe the testimony of thy mouth.
George Lamsa Translation
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Good News Translation
Because of your constant love be good to me, so that I may obey your laws.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
According to thy lovingkindness, give thou me life, so will I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(118-88) Quicken thou me according to thy mercy: and I shall keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
Revised Standard Version
In thy steadfast love spare my life, that I may keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Make me to lyue accordyng to thy pietie: and I wyll kepe the testimonies of thy mouth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Quicken me according to thy mercy; so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
Christian Standard Bible®
Give me life in accordance with your faithful love,and I will obey the decree you have spoken.
Hebrew Names Version
Preserve my life according to your lovingkindness, So I will obey the statutes of your mouth.
King James Version
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Lexham English Bible
According to your loyal love preserve me alive, so that I may heed the testimony from your mouth.
Literal Translation
Give me life according to Your mercy, and I will keep the Testimonies of Your mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
According to Thy kindness quicken Thou me, And I keep the testimony of Thy mouth!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O quycke me after yi louinge kyndnes, & so shall I kepe the testimonies of thy mouth.
New American Standard Bible
Revive me according to Your faithfulness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.
New King James Version
Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Revive me according to Your lovingkindness,So that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.

Contextual Overview

88 Preserve my life according to your lovingkindness, So I will obey the statutes of your mouth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Quicken: Psalms 119:25, Psalms 119:40, Psalms 119:159

so shall I: Psalms 119:2, Psalms 119:146, Psalms 25:10, Psalms 78:5, Psalms 132:12

Reciprocal: Psalms 119:107 - quicken Psalms 143:11 - Quicken

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness,.... According to it, and with it; let me have some discoveries of it, and of interest in it; and that will quicken me, revive and comfort me, under all the reproaches, ill usage, and persecutions of men. The love of God shed abroad in the heart comforts and supports under all sorts of afflictions; it quickens the graces of the Spirit, and brings them forth into lively exercise, as faith, hope, and love; and to a diligent and fervent discharge of every duty: it constrains to love the Lord, and live to him, to his glory, in obedience to his will;

so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth; the word of God, which comes out of his mouth, testifies of him, and of his mind and will; and which is to be received and observed, as being greater than the testimony of men, 1 John 5:9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Quicken me - Cause me to live; revive me. See Psalms 71:20, note; Ephesians 2:1, note. Compare Psalms 80:18; Rom 8:11; 1 Peter 3:18; John 6:63.

After thy loving-kindness - Thy mercy; thy grace; thy compassion. That is, Let the measure of the grace given to me be thine own benevolent nature, and not my deserts. That is all I ask; that is all I could desire.

So shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth - Which proceeds out of thy mouth. His hope of being able to keep it was founded on the grace and mercy which he besought God to bestow upon him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:88. Quicken me — Make and keep me alive.

So shall I keep — Without the spiritual life there is no obedience; we must therefore rise from the dead, and be quickened by the Spirit of Christ.

ANALYSIS OF LETTER CAPH. - Eleventh Division

I. In this section the psalmist laments his being grieved with some inward anguish.

II. Complains of his enemies.

III. Expresses his hope and constancy; and,

IV. Prays to God for comfort and grace.

I. 1. He begins with a sad complaint: "My soul fainteth." As the body will fail if it want natural food, so will the soul if it get not the bread of life.

2. His eyes also failed with looking up. The blessing was long delayed.

3. Yet he hoped in God's word. He knew that it would not fail.

4. He made complaint: "When wilt thou comfort me?"

5. His state was most deplorable; his body dried and shrivelled up through long fasting and affliction, so that it resembled a leathern bottle hung up in the smoke.

6. Yet still he continued faithful: "I do not forget thy statutes."

II. He complains against his enemies.

1. How long he should be obliged to suffer them.

2. He inquires "when the Lord will execute judgments."

He describes these enemies from their qualities: -

1. They were proud. They would not bow down to nor acknowledge God.

2. They were treacherous. They digged pits for him - used every kind of means in order to destroy him; cruel, treacherous, and cowardly.

3. They were impious. In heart and conduct they were not "according to God's law."

4. They acted without a shadow of justice; wrongfully against law and justice.

III. He prays for succour: "Help thou me." Here are three things of especial note: 1. O Thou, who art infinite.. 2. Help; for thou hast all power in heaven and in earth. 3. Me, who cannot stand against my enemies; but "I trust in thee."

IV. 1. He closes with a frequent petition: "Quicken thou me - make me alive." All true religion consists in the LIFE of God in the SOUL of man.

2. The manner in which he wishes to be quickened: "After thy loving-kindness." He wishes not to be raised from the death of sin by God's thunder, but by the loving voice of a tender Father.

3. The effect it should have upon him: "So shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth." Whatever thou speakest I will hear, receive, love, and obey.


 
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