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Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

153Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.
154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
155Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
156Great are your tender mercies, LORD. Revive me according to your ordinances.
157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
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Notice

The word “for” ties salvation’s distance to the failure to seek God’s statutes, making disregard for his word a grave matter.

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Where else Scripture says this

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Psalm 73:27For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.Both connect wickedness or unfaithfulness with distance from God or his salvation, and both treat that distance as perilous.
Psalm 85:9Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.Both describe salvation in terms of distance: far from those who disregard God’s statutes, near those who fear him.
Job 5:4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,Both describe being far from rescue, though Job speaks of children and this psalm speaks of the wicked.
Ephesians 2:17–18He came and preached peace to you who were far off and to those who were near.Both use the language of distance, though Ephesians announces peace to those far off without mentioning their response to God’s statutes.
Romans 3:11There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.Both name a failure to seek: the wicked do not seek God’s statutes, and Romans says no one seeks God.
Psalm 18:27For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.Both speak of God’s saving help with a sharp moral contrast: wickedness here, arrogance in Psalm 18.
Isaiah 57:19I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says the LORD; “and I will heal them.”Both use distance language, though Isaiah promises peace and healing without identifying those far off as wicked.
Psalm 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.Both describe the wicked through their disregard for God, expressed in neglected statutes here and thoughts without God in Psalm 10.
Luke 16:24He cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish …Both concern the need for rescue, though Luke’s plea for relief does not mention seeking God’s statutes.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.Both describe disregard for instruction, whether failing to seek God’s statutes or despising wisdom and instruction.
Isaiah 46:12Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!Both associate moral resistance with distance: salvation is far from the wicked, and the stubborn-hearted are far from righteousness.
Lamentations 3:17You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.Both describe distance from something needed, salvation or peace, though Lamentations does not attribute that distance to neglecting God’s statutes.
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Encouragement

The warning is grave. Yet the surrounding prayer seeks deliverance from the God whose tender mercies are great; seeking his statutes belongs within that dependence on him.

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