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Psalm 119:58

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

56This is my way, that I keep your precepts. HETH
57The LORD is my portion. I promised to obey your words.
58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
59I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.
60I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.
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The whole heart seeks God's favor here, yet the plea for mercy rests on God's word, leaving earnest devotion and dependence in the same prayer.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Jeremiah 29:13You shall seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.Both passages speak of seeking God with the whole heart; Jeremiah adds the promise that those who seek him will find him.
Psalm 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”Both prayers describe a heart turned toward God, seeking his favor in Psalm 119 and his face in Psalm 27.
Deuteronomy 4:29But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.Both describe seeking God with all the heart, while Deuteronomy also names the soul and promises that seekers will find him.
Psalm 119:10With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.Both prayers join seeking God with the whole heart to a request for his help: mercy here, protection from wandering there.
Psalm 119:41Let your loving kindness also come to me, LORD, your salvation, according to your word.Both prayers appeal to God's word as they ask him for mercy or loving kindness and salvation.
Hebrews 10:22let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,Both passages concern approaching God with a sincere heart, expressed as a whole heart in the psalm and a true heart in Hebrews.
Psalm 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.The whole heart marks both the search for God's favor and the resolve to keep his precepts under false accusation.
1 Kings 13:6The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of the LORD your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” The man of God …Both texts contain a plea for God's favor, with the king asking another person to intercede for his hand's restoration.
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.The psalm appeals to God's word in asking for mercy; Jesus declares that his words will endure beyond heaven and earth.
Job 11:19Also you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid. Yes, many will court your favor.Both mention favor, though the psalm seeks God's favor and the Job passage describes people seeking a person's favor.
Hosea 7:14They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.The psalm describes seeking God with the whole heart; Hosea describes cries that do not come to God from the heart.
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Encouragement

Even a heart intent on seeking God asks for mercy. Your need for mercy belongs in prayer; God's word is the ground of the plea.

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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).