Key Verse Spotlight
Psalms 119:159 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.”
Psalms 119:159
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Many {are} my persecutors and mine enemies; {yet} do I not decline from thy testimonies.
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Thy word {is} true {from} the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments {endureth} for ever. {Thy word...: Heb. The beginning of thy word is true}
SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
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