Psalms 119:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

Psalms 119:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 42:1-2
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. …
Psalms 84:2
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
Psalms 63:1
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Job 23:11-12
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. …
Psalms 119:131
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20)

David had prayed that God would open his eyes (Ps. 119:18) and open the law (Ps. 119:19); now here he pleads the earnestness of his desire for knowledge and grace, for it is the fervent prayer that avails much. 1. His desire was importunate: My soul breaketh for the longing it hath to thy judgments, or (as some read it) “ It is taken up, and wholly employed, in longing for thy judgments; the whole…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

17-20. Life is desirable in order to serve God; that we may do so aright, we should seek to have our eyes opened to behold His truth, and earnestly desire fully to understand it.