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Psalms 119:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times. "

Psalms 119:20

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18 Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

19 I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.

20 My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

21 You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

22 Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

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David had already prayed that God would open his eyes (Psalms 119:18) and reveal the meaning of his law (Psalms 119:19). Now he adds the strong earnestness of his desire for knowledge and grace, because heartfelt prayer has great power.

His longing was intense. He says, “My soul breaks with longing for your judgments,” or, as some read it, his whole soul is taken up and filled with desire for God’s judgments. All his desires flow in that direction. He feels that he would be ruined and undone if he did not have God’s word, its guidance, its fellowship, and its comfort.

This desire was also steady, and present at all times. It was not a passing mood, or something he felt only now and then when he happened to be in a good frame of mind. Rather, it shows the normal attitude of every holy soul, which hungers for God’s word as necessary food, the kind of food without which a person cannot live.

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Deuteronomy 26:16

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"Today the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart and with all your soul."

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Galatians 5:17

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"For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire."

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Psalms 119:1

"Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the LORD’s law."

Psalms 119:2

"Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart."

Psalms 119:3

"Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways."

Psalms 119:4

"You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them."

Psalms 119:5

"Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!"

Psalms 119:6

"Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments."

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