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Psalm 119:159

Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, LORD, according to your loving kindness.

157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
158I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, LORD, according to your loving kindness.
160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHIN
161Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
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Love for God's precepts shares a breath with a plea for life, so devotion and need are both present in this prayer.

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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 119:5Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!Both verses express devotion to God's commands: one longs for steadfast obedience, while the other declares love for his precepts.
Psalm 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.Both verses declare love for God's instruction; Psalm 119:97 also describes meditation on it throughout the day.
Psalm 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!Both ask God for revival, appealing to his word in one prayer and his loving kindness in the other.
Psalm 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. VAVBoth join affection for God's precepts with a plea for revival, appealing to his righteousness or his loving kindness.
Nehemiah 13:22I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember me for this …Both prayers ask God to take account of the speaker's devotion, then appeal to his loving kindness for help.
2 Kings 20:3“Remember now, LORD, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah …Both speakers ask the LORD to consider their devotion; Hezekiah recalls his conduct, while the psalmist names love for God's precepts.
Nehemiah 5:19Remember me, my God, for all the good that I have done for this people.Both prayers ask God to take notice: one names love for his precepts, the other good done for his people.
Galatians 5:17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.The shared thread is limited to desire: love for God's precepts here, conflicting desires of flesh and Spirit in Galatians.
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Your love for God's word can coexist with a need for help. The prayer asks YHWH for life according to his loving kindness.

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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).