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Psalm 119:43

Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.

41Let your loving kindness also come to me, LORD, your salvation, according to your word.
42So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
43Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.
44So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.
45I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
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Notice

The plea to keep truth in his mouth reveals a speaker who depends on God for the words he wants to keep speaking.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Ephesians 1:13In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy …Both speak of the word of truth; Ephesians identifies it as the Good News of salvation that its readers heard and believed.
Psalm 9:4For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.Both express confidence in God’s judgment: one hopes in his ordinances, while the other praises him for maintaining a just cause.
1 Peter 2:23When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.Both express trust in God amid hostile speech, with reproach in the psalm’s context and curses in Peter’s account of Christ.
Psalm 119:13With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.Both connect the speaker’s mouth with God’s ordinances: one asks to retain truth, while the other declares what God has spoken.
Psalm 119:175Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.Both ask God to sustain the speaker’s voice and look to his ordinances for hope or help.
Psalm 71:17–18God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.Both concern speech about God’s truth or works; Psalm 71 adds a history of being taught by God from youth.
James 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.Both name the “word of truth”; the psalm asks to keep speaking it, while James describes God giving birth through it.
2 Corinthians 6:7in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,Both name the “word of truth” in connection with dependence on God, expressed through prayer here and God’s power in Corinthians.
Isaiah 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart out of your …Both speak of God’s words remaining in a mouth: the psalm petitions God, while Isaiah records God’s covenant promise.
Daniel 8:12The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and …The shared thread is truth under threat: the psalm fears its removal from the mouth, while Daniel depicts truth cast to the ground.
Where this verse fits

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Encouragement

Even with hope in God’s ordinances, the speaker asks for help keeping truth in his mouth. Dependence on God runs through both halves of the prayer.

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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).