Psalms 119:58
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to your word.
American King James Version (AKJV)
I entreated your favor with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to your word.
American Standard Version (ASV)
I entreated thy favor with my whole heart: Be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart; have mercy on me, as you have said.
Webster's Revision
I entreated thy favor with my whole heart: be merciful to me according to thy word.
World English Bible
I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.
English Revised Version (ERV)
I entreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Clarke's Psalms 119:58 Bible Commentary
Fourthly. Being determined in his heart, he tells us, I entreated thy favor with my whole heart. He found he had sinned; that he needed mercy; that he had no time to lose; that he must be importunate; and therefore he sought that mercy with all his soul.
Fifthly. Feeling that he deserved nothing but wrath, that he had no right to any good, he cries for mercy in the way that God had promised to convey it: "Be merciful unto me!" And to this he is encouraged only by the promise of God; and therefore prays, "Be merciful unto me According to thy Word."
Barnes's Psalms 119:58 Bible Commentary
I entreated thy favor - Margin, as in Hebrew, "face." That is, he prayed that God would lift upon him the light of his countenance; that he would not avert his face from him in anger.
With my whole heart - With sincere, undivided affections. See Psalm 119:2, Psalm 119:10, Psalm 119:34; Psalm 9:1.
Be merciful unto me according to thy word - See the notes at Psalm 119:41.
