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

New Living Translation
I long to obey your commandments! Renew my life with your goodness. Waw

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

Berean Standard Bible
How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.

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

New King James Version
Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness.

New American Standard Bible
Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me through Your righteousness.

NASB 1995
Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me through Your righteousness. Vav.

NASB 1977
Behold, I long for Thy precepts; Revive me through Thy righteousness.

Legacy Standard Bible
Behold, I long for Your precepts; Revive me in Your righteousness.

Amplified Bible
I long for Your precepts; Renew me through Your righteousness.

Christian Standard Bible
How I long for your precepts! Give me life through your righteousness.

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have desired your commandments and, in your righteousness, give me life.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Behold, I have desired thy commandments: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Contemporary English Version
I long for your teachings. Be true to yourself and let me live.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
I want to obey your commands; give me new life, for you are righteous.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
Behold, I have longed after Thy precepts; Quicken me in Thy righteousness.

Literal Standard Version
Behold, I have longed for Your precepts, | Quicken me in Your righteousness,

Majority Standard Bible
How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness.

New American Bible
See how I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life.

NET Bible
Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me with your deliverance!

New Revised Standard Version
See, I have longed for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life.

New Heart English Bible
Look, I long for your precepts. Revive me in your 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.

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
39Turn away the disgrace I dread, for Your judgments are good. 40How I long for Your precepts! Revive me in Your righteousness. 41May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.…

Cross References
Psalm 119:20
My soul is consumed with longing for Your judgments at all times.

Psalm 119:25
My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.


Treasury of Scripture

Behold, I have longed after your precepts: quicken me in your righteousness.

I have

Psalm 119:5,20
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! …

Matthew 26:41
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Romans 7:24
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

quicken

Psalm 119:25,37,88,107,149,156,159
DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word…

Mark 9:24
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

John 5:21
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














(40) Quicken me in thy righteousness--i.e., Let the sense of thy eternal justice give me vigour and life. Or the thought may be of the invigorating influence of a complete surrender to a righteous law, as in Wordsworth's Ode to Duty;--

"I myself commend

Unto thy guidance from this hour.

Oh let my weakness have an end!

Give unto me, made lowly, wise,

The spirit of self-sacrifice.

The confidence of reason give,

And in the light of truth thy bondsman let me live."

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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
How
הִ֭נֵּה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

I long
תָּאַ֣בְתִּי (tā·’aḇ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 8373: To long for

for Your precepts!
לְפִקֻּדֶ֑יךָ (lə·p̄iq·qu·ḏe·ḵā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6490: Appointed, a mandate

Revive me
חַיֵּֽנִי׃ (ḥay·yê·nî)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

in Your righteousness.
בְּצִדְקָתְךָ֥ (bə·ṣiḏ·qā·ṯə·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively


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