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Psalm 119:174
I have longed for your salvation, LORD. Your law is my delight.
172Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
173Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
174I have longed for your salvation, LORD. Your law is my delight.
175Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.
176I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.
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Longing for God's salvation shares a sentence with delight in his law, showing that joy in God's words can coexist with a desire for his help.
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Romans 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of …Both concern a person's response to God's will, though Romans emphasizes a renewed mind and the psalm emphasizes delight.
Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,Both speakers describe delight in God's law, with Romans locating that delight in the inward person.
Psalm 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.God's instruction is a source of joy in both verses, described as delight here and a cherished heritage there.
Lamentations 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.Both passages look toward the LORD's salvation, with Lamentations describing the hope and quiet waiting that accompany that desire.
Genesis 49:18I have waited for your salvation, LORD.Both address the LORD with a desire for his salvation, expressed as longing in the psalm and waiting in Genesis.
Psalm 119:77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.Both declare delight in God's law while expressing need for God's help, whether salvation or tender mercies that sustain life.
Psalm 119:166–167I have hoped for your salvation, LORD. I have done your commandments.Both direct hope toward the LORD's salvation and express attachment to his commands, through obedience in one and delight in the other.
Psalm 119:20My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.Longing marks both verses, directed toward God's salvation here and toward his ordinances in the earlier verse.
Nehemiah 8:12All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.Joy accompanies God's words in both passages: delight in the law here, and celebration after understanding the words in Nehemiah.
Jeremiah 6:10To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the LORD’s word has become a …Delight in God's word is the shared concern, affirmed by the psalmist and absent among those Jeremiah addresses.
Romans 8:23–25Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our …Both express desire for God's saving work, with Romans describing inward groaning while awaiting adoption and the redemption of the body.
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Longing for God's help need not mean that delight has gone silent. The psalmist still longs for salvation and still finds delight in God's law.
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