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159Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
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MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Think upon me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 159)Here is, 1. David’s appeal to God concerning his love to his precepts: “Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love them; consider it then, and deal with me as thou usest to deal with those that love thy word, which thou hast magnified above all thy name.” He does not say, “Consider how I fulfil thy precepts;” he was conscious to himself that in many things he came short; but, “Conside…
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