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What does Psalms 119:126 mean?
"It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law."
— Psalms 119:126 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
My eyes fail looking for your salvation, for your righteous word.
Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness. Teach me your statutes.
I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.
Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
Explanation
Psalm 119:126 records a brief but intense cry from the psalmist: "It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law." In plain language, the writer is telling God that a critical moment has arrived — evildoers are openly violating God's commands, and it is time for God to step in and respond. This is not a vague complaint but an urgent appeal, almost a summons, asking the Lord to rise up and address the injustice happening around the psalmist.
Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible, an elaborate acrostic poem in which each stanza begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The author is unnamed, though many scholars place its composition in the post-exilic period, when devotion to the Torah (God's law) became central to
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