Psalm 119:175
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
Cross-reference
Psalm 119:75 affirms God's judgments are right and affliction is faithful — context for why help comes through judgments.
Psalm 119:43 expresses hope in God's rules — the same reliance on judgments that the psalmist asks for help with in verse 175.
Psalm 51:15 asks God to open lips to show praise — mirroring the request that life enable praise.
In Psalm 21:4, the king asked for life and received it — a direct parallel to the psalmist's request for life to praise God.
Psalm 67:3 calls all peoples to praise God — echoing the psalmist's purpose in asking for life: 'it shall praise thee'.
Psalm 30:9 asks 'Shall the dust praise you?' — death prevents praise, so life is prerequisite for praising God.
Psalm 51:14 links deliverance from sin to singing aloud of God's righteousness — same pattern as being helped to praise.
Psalm 118:18 acknowledges God's chastening did not lead to death — similar to pleading for life to praise.
Isaiah 38:19 declares 'The living shall praise thee' — directly affirming that life is for praising God.
Leviticus 20:22 connects keeping God's statutes with remaining in the land — showing that God's rules sustain life, paralleling the psalmist's plea.
Isaiah 26:8 waits for God's judgments and desires His name — same longing for judgments to help.
Isaiah 26:9 desires God with the soul and says judgments teach righteousness — echoes request that judgments help.
In 1 Corinthians 11:32, being judged by the Lord leads to discipline and salvation — echoing the idea that God's judgments ultimately help.