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Psalm 119:25

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

23Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors. DALETH
25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
26I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.
27Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
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Notice

Dust makes the soul’s distress almost tangible, while the plea for revival turns toward God’s word without claiming that the distress has passed.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you …Both passages look to God for life: Deuteronomy promises his work in the heart, while the psalm asks him for revival.
Psalm 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.Both connect distress with being brought low and look to God for life, using dust and the earth’s depths as images.
Psalm 119:159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, LORD, according to your loving kindness.Both ask God to revive the speaker, appealing here to his word and there to his loving kindness.
Colossians 3:2Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.The link is limited: dust describes distress in the psalm, while Colossians contrasts things above with things on earth.
Psalm 44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.Both describe the soul brought down to dust; Psalm 44 adds the body clinging to the earth.
Romans 7:22–24For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,Romans names delight in God’s law, matching the delight in God’s statutes expressed just before this plea for revival.
Psalm 143:11Revive me, LORD, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.Both plead for God to revive a troubled soul, appealing to his word here and his name and righteousness there.
Philippians 3:19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.The shared ground imagery is limited: the psalm describes distress in dust, while Philippians condemns devotion to earthly things.
2 Samuel 7:27–29Both prayers appeal to what God has said: the psalm seeks revival, and David prays in response to God’s promise.
Isaiah 65:25The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy …Both mention dust, though its roles differ: it pictures the speaker’s low condition in the psalm and becomes the serpent’s food in Isaiah.
Romans 8:2–3For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.Both concern life from God: the psalm asks for revival, while Romans declares freedom through the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
Romans 7:14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.Both describe human need in relation to God’s instruction, though Romans names bondage to sin and the psalm leaves its distress unspecified.
Where this verse fits

Burnout. grief. feeling distant from God.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Pray Psalm 119:25 aloud before bed tonight

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Encouragement

Being laid low does not silence this prayer. You may speak to God from the dust; the plea rests on his word even before any change is described.

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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).