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Psalm 119:124

Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.

122Ensure your servant’s well-being. Don’t let the proud oppress me.
123My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.
124Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
125I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
126It is time to act, LORD, for they break your law.
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The request for loving kindness leads straight to a request for teaching, joining the need for God's care with the desire to learn his commands.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 119:12Blessed are you, LORD. Teach me your statutes.Both verses ask God to teach his statutes, one following praise and the other a plea for loving kindness.
Psalm 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your …Both prayers appeal to God's loving kindness, though Psalm 51 asks for transgressions to be blotted out.
Daniel 9:18My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before …Both prayers ground their appeal in God's mercy, with Daniel making explicit that the petitioners' righteousness is no basis for their request.
Psalm 119:76–77Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.Both verses speak as God's servant and appeal to his loving kindness, seeking teaching here and comfort there.
Psalm 103:10He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.Both concern how God deals with his people: one asks for loving kindness, and the other describes his withholding deserved repayment.
2 Timothy 1:16–18May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,Both are appeals for the Lord's kindness, though Paul's request concerns the house of Onesiphorus rather than himself.
Luke 18:13But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’Both speakers appeal to God's mercy, while the tax collector also names himself a sinner.
Nehemiah 9:20You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.The psalm asks God to teach; Nehemiah recounts God giving his good Spirit to instruct his people.
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Encouragement

Even while waiting for rescue, the servant asks to be taught. God's loving kindness is the ground of this prayer for help and understanding.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).