Psalms 119:156
Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
In Context
155Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:14And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.
Psalms 51:1To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.\
Psalms 86:13For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld.
Psalms 119:25DALETH My soul is joined to the dust: O give me life, in keeping with your word.
Isaiah 63:7I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:156
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes. Here is, 1. The description of wicked men. They do not only do God's statutes, but they do not so much as seek them; they do not acquaint themselves with them, nor so much as desire to know their duty, nor in the least endeavour to do it. Those are wicked indeed who do not think the law of God worth enquiring after, but are altogether regardless of it, being resolved to live at large and to walk in the way of their heart. 2. Their doom:… Read the whole commentary →