Psalm 119:40
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New International Version (©2011)
How I long for your precepts! In your righteousness preserve my life.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I long to obey your commandments! Renew my life with your goodness.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me through Your righteousness. Vav.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
How I long for Your precepts! Give me life through Your righteousness.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Look, I long for your precepts; revive me through your righteousness.

NET Bible (©2006)
Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
I have desired your commandments and in your righteousness give me life.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I long for your guiding principles. Give me a new life in your righteousness.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Behold, I have longed after your precepts: revive me in your righteousness.

American King James Version
Behold, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness.

American Standard Version
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy justice.

Darby Bible Translation
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

English Revised Version
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: revive me in thy righteousness.

World English Bible
Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. WAW

Young's Literal Translation
Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

119:33-40 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 out; for the friendship of the world is enmity with God. Quicken me in thy way; to redeem time, and to do every duty with liveliness of spirit. Beholding vanity deadens us, and slackens our pace; a traveller must not stand gazing upon every object that presents itself to his view. The promises of God's word greatly relate to the preservation of the true believer. When Satan has drawn a child of God into worldly compliances, he will reproach him with the falls into which he led him. Victory must come from the cross of Christ. When we enjoy the sweetness of God's precepts, it will make us long for more acquaintance with them. And where God has wrought to will, he will work to do.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 40. - Behold, I have longed after thy precepts (comp. vers. 20 and 131). There are those - few, it may be, but truly blessed - who "hunger and thirst after righteousness" (Matthew 5:6). Quicken me in thy righteousness (comp. ver. 37). Help my efforts to walk in thy righteous ways.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts,.... After a greater degree of knowledge of them, and an opportunity of hearing them explained and enforced, and of yielding obedience to them; see Psalm 119:7;

quicken me in thy righteousness: in the way of righteousness, according to the word of righteousness, the Gospel, and with the righteousness of Christ revealed in it; and which is unto life, and quickens and comforts the heart, and from whence abundance of peace and joy flows.

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Thy Word
…39Turn away my reproach which I fear: for your judgments are good. 40Behold, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness. 41Let your mercies come also to me, O LORD, even your salvation, according to your word. …

Psalm 119:20 My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.
Psalm 119:25 I am laid low in the dust; preserve my life according to your word.