IiNdumiso 119:145

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

145 Ndikhala ngentliziyo yonke, ndiphendule; Yehova, imimiselo yakho ndiya kuyibamba.

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cried: Psalms 119:10, Psalms 61:1, Psalms 61:2, Psalms 62:8, Psalms 86:4, Psalms 102:1, *title Psalms 142:1, Psalms 142:2, 1 Samuel 1:10, 1 Samuel 1:15, Jeremiah 29:13

I will: Psalms 119:44, Psalms 119:106, Psalms 119:115

Reciprocal: Leviticus 20:22 - statutes Numbers 14:24 - followed me Deuteronomy 4:29 - with all 1 Kings 8:48 - And so return Psalms 119:169 - Let my cry Lamentations 2:18 - heart Colossians 3:23 - whatsoever Hebrews 10:22 - a true

Gill's Notes on the Bible

q, KOPH.--The Nineteenth Part.

Ver. 145. KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart,.... Prayer is often expressed by crying; which sometimes signifies mental, and sometimes vocal prayer; and generally supposes the person praying to be in distress, either outward or inward. This prayer of the psalmists was hearty and cordial, not with his mouth and lips only, but with his heart also; it did not proceed from feigned lips, but was put up in sincerity and truth; yea, it was with his whole heart, with all the powers and faculties of his soul employed; his affections set on God, the desires of his soul after him, and his will submitted to his; it denotes the intenseness, earnestness, and fervency of prayer;

hear me, O Lord: the prayer he had put up, and answer it. Some persons pray, and that is enough; they do not concern themselves whether their prayers are heard or not: but David desired an answer, and looked after that;

I will keep thy statutes; not in his own strength, but in the strength of the Lord; and it is to be understood not merely as a resolution what he would do; nor as a promise, which he uses as a plea, argument, or motive to be heard; but rather it expresses the end of his being heard, or the thing for which he desires to be heard: for so it may be rendered, "that I may keep thy statutes"; hear me, and give me grace and strength to enable me to observe them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I cried with my whole heart ... - This commences a new division of the psalm, indicated by the Hebrew letter Koph (ק q), answering to our letter “k.” The expression “I cried with my whole heart” means that he did it earnestly, fervently. He had no divided wishes when he prayed. Not always is this so, even with good people. They sometimes offer a form of prayer, that they may be spiritually-minded, when their hearts are intensely worldly, and they would be unwilling to be otherwise; or that religion may be revived, when their hearts have no lively interest in it, and no wish for it; or that they may live wholly to God, when they are making all their arrangements to live for the world, and when they would be greatly disappointed if God should take means to make them live entirely to him; or that they may be humble, childlike, sincere, when they have no wish to be any otherwise than they are now, and when they would regard it as an affront if it should be assumed by any that they are not so now, and if they were exhorted to change their course of life. Often it would be a great surprise - perhaps grief - even to professedly religious persons, if God should answer their prayers, and should make them what they professedly desire to be, and what they pray that they may be. See the notes at Psalms 9:1; compare Psalms 111:1; Psalms 138:1; Psalms 119:2, Psalms 119:10, Psalms 119:34, Psalms 119:58, Psalms 119:69; Jeremiah 24:7.

I will keep thy statutes - It is my purpose and desire to keep thy law perfectly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

LETTER ק KOPH. - Nineteenth Division

Verse Psalms 119:145. I cried with my whole heart — The whole soul of the psalmist was engaged in this good work. He whose whole heart cries to God will never rise from the throne of grace without a blessing.