SALVATION Psalm 119:174-176

I long for your salvation, LORD, and your law gives me delight. Let me live that I may praise you, and may your laws sustain me. I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.

I long for your salvation, LORD 
Psalm 119:166  I wait for your salvation, LORD, and I follow your commands.

and your law gives me delight 
Psalm 119:16  I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word.
Psalm 119:24  Your statutes are my delight; they are my counselors.

Let me live that I may praise you 
Psalm 119:116  Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.
Psalm 119:159  See how I love your precepts; preserve my life, LORD, in accordance with your love.
Isaiah 55:3  "Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David."

I have strayed like a lost sheep 
Psalm 119:10  I seek you with all of my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.
Psalm 95:10  "For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, 'They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways.' "
Jeremiah 50:17  "Israel is a scattered flock that lions have chased away. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria; the last to crush their bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon."
Ezekiel 34:11  " 'For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.' "
Luke 15:4  "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn't he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?"

for I have not forgotten your commands 
Psalm 44:17  All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.

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