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Psalm 119:167

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

165Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.
166I have hoped for your salvation, LORD. I have done your commandments.
167My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.
168I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you. TAV
169Let my cry come before you, LORD. Give me understanding according to your word.
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The turn from observing God's testimonies to loving them makes obedience a matter of the soul, with affection expressed as well as action.

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Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,The psalmist's soul loves God's testimonies, and Paul describes delight in God's law in the inward person.
Psalm 104:34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.Both express affection toward God or what he has spoken: love for his testimonies here, rejoicing in the LORD there.
Psalm 119:95The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.Both describe attention to God's instruction: observing his testimonies here and considering his statutes under threat there.
Psalm 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.Both declare love for God's instruction, expressed through obedience here and meditation throughout the day there.
Psalm 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.Love for God's commands appears in both verses, joined to observing them here and delighting in them there.
Hebrews 10:16“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,” says the Lord, “I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;” …Both connect God's instruction with the inner person: the soul observes his testimonies, and God writes his laws on heart and mind.
John 14:21–24One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal …Both connect love with keeping commandments: the psalmist loves God's testimonies, and Jesus identifies those keeping his commandments as those loving him.
John 15:9–10Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.Love is the shared thread: the psalmist loves God's testimonies, while Jesus speaks of his love for his disciples.
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The soul that obeys here also loves. God's testimonies are treasured, and the speaker can tell God both what he has kept and what he loves.

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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).