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Psalm 119:145
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, LORD! I will keep your statutes.
143Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.
144Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live. QOPH
145I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, LORD! I will keep your statutes.
146I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
147I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.
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“Answer me, LORD!” is an urgent plea from someone whose whole heart is turned toward God and whose resolve to obey remains intact.
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Jeremiah 29:13You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.Both passages describe turning to God with the whole heart, through a cry in the psalm and a search in Jeremiah.
Deuteronomy 4:29But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.The psalm's wholehearted call shares Deuteronomy's emphasis on seeking the LORD with all the heart.
Psalm 119:10With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.Both prayers join seeking God with the whole heart to a concern for keeping his commands.
Lamentations 2:18Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.Both passages speak of the heart crying to the Lord, with Lamentations expressing that distress through unceasing tears.
Colossians 3:23And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,Both texts describe wholehearted attention directed toward the Lord, expressed through prayer in the psalm and work in Colossians.
Hebrews 10:22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,Both passages emphasize the heart in approaching God: a whole heart in the psalm and a true heart in Hebrews.
Numbers 14:24But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him I will bring into the land into which he went. His offspring shall …The psalmist's wholehearted prayer and pledge of obedience share Caleb's devotion to following God.
Psalm 102:1A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, LORD! Let my cry come to you.Both prayers cry out to the LORD for a response, asking him to hear or answer.
Psalm 119:106I have sworn, and have confirmed it, that I will obey your righteous ordinances.Both verses contain a personal pledge to obey God's commands, expressed as statutes in one and righteous ordinances in the other.
Leviticus 20:22“‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out.Keeping God's statutes is the shared concern: the psalmist pledges obedience, while Leviticus commands it.
Psalm 119:44So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.Both verses express a resolve to obey God's instruction, with Psalm 119:44 extending that commitment forever.
1 Samuel 1:10She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.Both passages show prayer directed to the LORD amid distress, with Hannah's sorrow expressed through weeping.
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An urgent plea belongs in a life committed to God. The psalmist calls with his whole heart while still needing an answer and pledging to keep God's statutes.
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