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Psalm 119:47

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

45I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
46I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
48I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN
49Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
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Commandments are the object of love here, and the word “because” makes that love the reason the speaker intends to delight in them.

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Psalm 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”Both speakers delight in what God commands, with Psalm 40 describing his law as being within the heart.
Psalm 119:48I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYINThe next verse repeats love for God’s commandments and adds outstretched hands and a resolve to meditate on his statutes.
Psalm 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.Both verses declare love for God’s instruction, while verse 97 connects that love with meditation throughout the day.
Psalm 119:127Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.Both verses name love for God’s commandments; verse 127 expresses their worth by valuing them above pure gold.
John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.The psalm speaks of delight in God’s commandments, while Jesus describes doing the will of the one who sent him as food.
Job 23:11–12My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.Both speakers express commitment to God’s direction: the psalm through love for his commandments, Job through keeping his way.
Romans 7:22For I delight in God’s law after the inward person,Both passages speak of delight in God’s law, with Romans locating that delight in the inward person.
1 Peter 2:21For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,The connection is broad: the psalm expresses devotion to God’s commands, while Peter directs readers to follow Christ’s example.
Romans 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.Both passages esteem God’s commands: the psalm expresses love, while Romans names the commandment as holy, righteous, and good.
Romans 7:16But if what I don’t desire, that I do, I consent to the law that it is good.Both passages affirm God’s instruction, though Romans describes agreement with the law’s goodness amid a conflict between desire and action.
Philippians 2:5Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,The shared thread is inward disposition: love for God’s commandments in the psalm, and a mind patterned after Christ in Philippians.
Proverbs 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.Both passages use the language of enjoyment: delight in commandments in the psalm, and pleasantness along the ways described in Proverbs.
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Your response to God’s commands deserves honest attention, even where love feels thin. The psalm speaks of a real possibility: God’s commandments can be loved and enjoyed.

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