Psalm 119:174 {118:174}
Good News Translation
How I long for your saving help, O LORD! I find happiness in your law.

New Revised Standard Version
I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight.

Contemporary English Version
I am waiting for you to save me, LORD. Your Law makes me happy.

New American Bible
I long for your salvation, LORD; your law is my delight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.

longed

Psalm 119:81,166 My soul hath fainted after thy salvation: and in thy word I have very much hoped. . . .

Genesis 49:18 I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

2 Samuel 23:5 Neither is my house so great with God, that he should make with me an eternal covenant, firm in all things and assured. For he is all my salvation, and all my will: neither is there ought thereof that springeth not up.

Proverbs 13:12 Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul: desire when it cometh, is a tree of life.

Songs 5:8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him that I languish with love.

Romans 7:22-25 For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inward man: . . .

Romans 8:23-25 And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit: even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body. . . .

Philippians 1:23 But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

and thy law

Psalm 119:16,24,47,77,111,162,167 I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words. . . .

Psalm 1:2 But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
173Let thy hand be with me to save me; for I have chosen thy precepts. 174I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my meditation.175My soul shall live and shall praise thee: and thy judgments shall help me.…
Cross References
Luke 2:30
Because my eyes have seen thy salvation,

Genesis 49:18
I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

Psalm 119:16
I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.

Psalm 119:24
For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel.

Psalm 119:166
I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments.

Psalm 119:173
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