Psalms 119:156
Yahweh, you are very merciful; allow me to continue to live because of my obeying ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:14David said to Gad, “All those are very terrible things for me to choose between! But allow Yahweh to punish [MTY] me, because he is very merciful. Do not allow humans to punish me, because they will not be merciful.”
Psalms 51:1O God, be merciful to me, because you love me faithfully; because you are very merciful, erase the record of the ways that I disobeyed you!
Psalms 86:13You faithfully love me very much; you have prevented me from dying and going to the place where dead people are.
Psalms 119:25I think that I will soon die [IDM]; revive/heal me, as you have told me that you would.
Isaiah 63:7I will tell about Yahweh faithfully loving his people, and I will praise him for all that he has done. Yahweh has done good things for us people [MTY] of Israel; he has acted mercifully toward us, and he has steadfastly and faithfully loved us.
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 →