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Psalm 119:38

Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.

36Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.
37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
38Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.
39Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. VAV
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“Your servant” makes this a humble request for God to keep his word, with reverence for him as the stated goal.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Jeremiah 32:39–41I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good and the good of their children after them.The psalm asks for a promise to be fulfilled so God is feared; Jeremiah records God’s promise that his people will fear him.
Psalm 147:11The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.Both passages join dependence on God’s goodness with fear of him, linking hope and reverence.
Luke 1:38Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.Mary and the psalm’s speaker each take the place of a servant and ask for God’s word to be carried out.
2 Corinthians 1:20For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.Both passages connect God’s promises with his honor: the psalm seeks fear of God, while Corinthians speaks of his glory.
Psalm 103:17But the LORD’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,Both passages connect fear of God with reliance on his enduring goodness, expressed through promise and loving kindness.
Psalm 103:13Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.Fear of God appears in both passages, as the aim of the servant’s prayer and a mark of those receiving fatherlike compassion.
Psalm 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.Both passages speak of fearing God in connection with receiving good from him, through his promise or his loving kindness.
2 Samuel 7:25–29“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 ask God to carry out what he has spoken, and both speakers identify themselves as his servant.
Romans 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.The clearest link is the surrounding verse’s description of God’s ordinances as good, which Romans also says of the commandment.
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You have room to ask God to do what he has promised. This prayer seeks an answer that deepens reverence: God’s gifts serve the honor of his name.

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