Psalms 119:149 meaning and explanation
Hear my voice, O LORD, according to Your loving devotion; give me life according to Your justice.
Psalms 119:149, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is an unnamed psalmist in the long acrostic poem of Psalm 119, a prayer of one who loves God's law while enduring mockery and opposition from the arrogant and from rulers. Here he asks God to hear his voice, appealing not to his own merit but to God's chesed, his covenant loving devotion, and to God's mishpat, his justice or right judgment.
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