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Psalm 119:8

I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me. BETH

6Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
7I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, when I learn your righteous judgments.
8I will observe your statutes. Don’t utterly forsake me. BETH
9How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
10With my whole heart I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
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The promise to observe God’s statutes ends with a plea against abandonment, showing how resolve and need can share the same prayer.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 71:9Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.Both prayers ask God not to forsake the speaker; Psalm 71 names old age and failing strength as the setting.
Psalm 51:11Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.Both speakers plead against separation from God; Psalm 51 names his presence and his Holy Spirit.
Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.Psalm 119:8 joins resolve with a plea to God; Philippians joins ability with dependence on Christ’s strength.
Psalm 38:21–22Don’t forsake me, LORD. My God, don’t be far from me.Both prayers use the plea “Don’t forsake me,” with Psalm 38 also asking God not to be far away.
Psalm 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to …Both speakers ask God not to forsake them while expressing a purpose: observing his statutes or declaring his strength.
Joshua 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods …Both passages express a firm commitment to God: observing his statutes in the psalm and serving the LORD in Joshua.
Jeremiah 39:7Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.The link is limited: the psalm asks God not to forsake; Jeremiah describes Zedekiah’s blinding and captivity without naming abandonment.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. wanting a steady prayer habit.

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Pray both sentences of Psalm 119:8 before breakfast

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Encouragement

Your resolve to obey can include an honest plea for God to stay near. The speaker commits to God’s statutes and still asks him, “Don’t utterly forsake me.”

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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).