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Psalm 119:86

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

84How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
85The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.
86All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
87They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn’t forsake your precepts.
88Preserve my life according to your loving kindness, so I will obey the statutes of your mouth. LAMEDH
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Notice

“Help me!” ends a prayer that trusts God’s commands while naming persecution as wrong, leaving the danger unresolved and the plea for help plain.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 109:26Help me, LORD, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;Both prayers ask God for help; Psalm 109 also appeals to his loving kindness as the ground for rescue.
Psalm 70:5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. LORD, don’t delay.Both speakers turn to God for help in distress, with Psalm 70 adding an urgent plea against delay.
Psalm 35:19Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.Both speakers name the wrong done by their enemies and bring that injustice before God in prayer.
Psalm 119:160All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. SIN AND SHINBoth verses affirm the trustworthiness of all God’s commands, describing them as faithful in one and true in the other.
1 Peter 2:19For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.Both passages describe unjust suffering alongside regard for God, without treating the injustice as deserved.
Romans 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, righteous, and good.Both passages affirm the character of God’s commands: the psalm names their faithfulness, and Romans names their holiness and goodness.
Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.Both speakers identify wrong directed against them; Job names harmful plans, while the psalm names persecution.
Jeremiah 18:20Should evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from …Both speakers bring the wrong done against them before God, asking him to act on their behalf.
Deuteronomy 4:8What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?Both passages praise God’s law as a whole, affirming the faithfulness of his commandments and the righteousness of his ordinances.
2 Samuel 22:23For all his ordinances were before me. As for his statutes, I didn’t depart from them.Both passages speak of God’s commands; the psalm affirms their faithfulness, while the song describes keeping them and refusing to depart.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. fear for the future. wanting a steady prayer habit.

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Something small to carry out of this verse

Name one need before praying “Help me!”

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Encouragement

Trust in God’s commands leaves room to name wrong and ask for rescue. The speaker’s few words are a prayer, even while the persecution continues.

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