Skip to main content
Psalmlog Logo
Read

Psalm 119:170

Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.

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.
170Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.
171Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.
172Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
World English BibleRead in NIV in Psalmlog →
← Psalm 119:169Psalm 119:171 →
Notice

The plea to be heard and delivered speaks to the strain of needing help while trusting what God has said.

Questions to write on. Each one opens a new entry with this verse already attached.

What would you name before God after praying, “Let my supplication come before you”?

Write on this

How does “according to your word” shape the help you are asking God to give?

Write on this
Connect

Where else Scripture says this

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

This verse's connections, by chapterThe Bible's strongest chapter linksHover or tap a book to trace it
Psalm 119:41Let your loving kindness also come to me, LORD, your salvation, according to your word.Both prayers ask God for saving help according to his word, with verse 41 naming his loving kindness.
Psalm 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.Both prayers ask God to hear a petition; Psalm 28 adds the gesture of hands lifted toward his Most Holy Place.
Psalm 119:58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.Both appeals rest on God's word, asking him for mercy in one verse and deliverance in the other.
Psalm 89:20–25I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,The link is limited: Psalm 119 appeals to God's word, while Psalm 89 records God's words about finding and anointing David.
2 Samuel 7:25“Now, LORD God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.Both prayers appeal to what God has spoken as the basis for asking him to act.
Genesis 32:9–12Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you …Both prayers turn to God's word; Jacob addresses God by recalling his command to return and his promise of good.
Where this verse fits

Waiting. fear for the future. wanting a steady prayer habit.

What the Bible says about patience →What the Bible says about fear →
One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray this verse, naming one need for God's help

prayeroncelight
Encouragement

The psalmist leaves the trouble unnamed and the timing unstated. Your request for help can remain plain: deliverance is sought from God, according to his word.

Now put it in your words.

Start an entry on Psalm 119:170. Write what it stirs. Psalmlog sets your words beside Scripture and gives you one next step. Your first entry is free, no account needed.

Keep goingPsalm 119 · the whole chapter with its connection mapPsalms · every chapterBuild a reading plan through Psalms

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).