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Psalm 119:49
Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
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.
51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
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“Remember” is a bold request from a servant whose hope came from God, making dependence on his word part of the prayer itself.
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Psalm 130:5I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.Both prayers link hope to God's word, with Psalm 130 naming the waiting that accompanies that hope.
2 Samuel 7:25“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 act on his word to his servant; David's request also concerns his house.
Psalm 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.Remembering links these passages: one asks God to remember his word, while the other recounts his remembrance of his covenant.
Psalm 33:22Let your loving kindness be on us, LORD, since we have hoped in you.Both prayers make hope in God the ground for a request addressed to him.
Psalm 106:4Remember me, LORD, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,Both appeal to God to remember, one focusing on his word and the other on his servant's need for favor and salvation.
1 Peter 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—Hope rests on what God gives in both texts; Peter specifies grace at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Chronicles 17:23Now, LORD, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.Both speakers approach God as his servant and ask him to act according to what he has spoken.
1 Kings 8:26“Now therefore, God of Israel, please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.Both prayers appeal to God's spoken word to his servant as the basis for asking him to act.
Isaiah 62:6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on the LORD, take no rest,Both concern calling on God, though Isaiah addresses watchmen who must keep calling and the psalm records one servant's plea.
Romans 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.Both identify God as the source of hope; Romans asks for hope to abound through the Holy Spirit's power.
Job 7:7Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.Both plead with God to remember, though Job speaks of life's brevity while the psalm appeals to God's word.
Genesis 8:1God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.The psalm asks God to remember his word; Genesis recounts God remembering Noah and the animals as the floodwaters begin to subside.
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Waiting. fear for the future. wanting a steady prayer habit.
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The servant asks God to remember the very word that gave hope. That plea belongs within faith: the hope in this prayer began with God.
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