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Psalm 119:48

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes. ZAYIN

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.
50This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
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Outstretched hands make love for God's commandments visible, while the promise to meditate shows that this love also takes the form of sustained thought.

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Psalm 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.Both verses name love for God's commandments, expressed through delight in verse 47 and reaching hands and meditation in verse 48.
Psalm 119:97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.Both verses join love for God's instruction with meditation; verse 97 extends that meditation through the day.
Psalm 119:15I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.Both verses voice a resolve to meditate on God's instruction, with verse 15 also naming consideration of his ways.
1 Timothy 4:15Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.The shared thread is devoted attention: the psalm names meditation on God's statutes, while Timothy is urged toward diligence in his charge.
Matthew 7:21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.Both concern God's expressed will: the psalm speaks of loving his commandments, while Jesus stresses doing his Father's will.
Psalm 1:2but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.Both connect affection for God's instruction with meditation; Psalm 1 describes delight and meditation continuing day and night.
John 15:14You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.Commandments are central to both texts: the psalm expresses love for God's commands, and Jesus links friendship with him to obeying his commands.
John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.The connection is limited: the psalm names loving attention to God's statutes, while Jesus speaks of blessing in doing what is known.
Genesis 24:63Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.Both mention meditation, though Genesis names Isaac's evening field setting without stating what he meditates on.
James 1:22–25But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.Both concern a response to God's word: the psalm names love and meditation, while James commands action beyond hearing.
Ezekiel 44:12Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up my hand against …Both mention a hand gesture, with contrasting purposes: the worshiper reaches toward God's commandments; God lifts his hand in judgment against those who served idols.
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Love for God's commandments has a shape here: hands reaching toward them and a mind returning to them. God's statutes deserve that patient attention.

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