Psalms 119:40 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁰Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

Psalms 119:40 —

Old words in this verse

quicken: — bring to life, revive.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:20
My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
John 10:10
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, …
Psalms 119:159
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 40)

Here, 1. David professes the ardent affection he had to the word of God: “ I have longed after thy precepts, not only loved them, and delighted in what I have already attained, but I have earnestly desired to know them more and do them better, and am still pressing forward towards perfection.” Tastes of the sweetness of God’s precepts will but set us a longing after a more intimate acquaintance wi…

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

(vv. 40)

39-40. Our hope of freedom from the reproach of inconsistency is in God’s power, quickening us to live according to His Word, which He leads us to love. for thy judgments are good--The time must therefore be at hand when Thy justice will turn the “reproach” from Thy Church upon the world (Is 25:8; 66:5; Zep 2:8-10). VAU. (Psa 119:41-48).