Psalms Chapter 119:20
119:1-3, 119:4-6, 119:7-8, 119:9, 119:10, 119:11, 119:12, 119:13-16, 119:17, 119:18, 119:19, 119:20, 119:21, 119:22, 119:23, 119:24, 119:25, 119:26-27, 119:28-29, 119:30-32, 119:33-34, 119:35-36, 119:37, 119:38, 119:39, 119:40, 119:41-42, 119:43-44, 119:45-48, 119:49, 119:50, 119:50, 119:52, 119:53, 119:54, 119:55-56, 119:57, 119:58, 119:59-60, 119:61, 119:62, 119:63, 119:64, 119:65-66, 119:67, 119:68, 119:69-70, 119:71, 119:72, 119:73, 119:74, 119:75, 119:76-77, 119:78-79, 119:80, 119:81-82,119:83, 119:84, 119:85-87, 119:88, 119:89-91, 119:92, 119:93, 119:94, 119:95,119:96, 119:97,
Psa 119:20
David had prayed that God would open his eyes (Psa 119:18) and open the law (Psa 119:19); now here he pleads the earnestness of his desire for knowledge and grace, for it is the fervent prayer that avails much.
1. His desire was importunate: My soul breaketh for the longing it hath to thy judgments, or (as some read it) “It is taken up, and wholly employed, in longing for thy judgments; the whole stream of its desires runs in this channel. I shall think myself quite broken and undone if I want the word of God, the direction, converse, and comfort of it.”
2. It was constant - at all times. It was not now and then, in a good humour, that he was so fond of the word of God; but it is the habitual temper of every sanctified soul to hunger after the word of God as its necessary food, which there is no living without.