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<p>David had prayed that God would open his eyes (<a class="bibleref" title="Ps.119.18" href="/passage/?search=Ps.119.18">Ps. 119:18</a>) and open the law (<a class="bibleref" title="Ps.119.19" href="/passage/?search=Ps.119.19">Ps. 119:19</a>); 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: <i>My soul breaketh for the longing it hath to thy judgments</i>, or (as some read it) “<i>It is taken up, and wholly employed, in longing for thy judgments</i>; 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—<i>at all times</i>. 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.</p>
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