Psalms 119:156
Great are your tender mercies, LORD. Revive me according to your ordinances.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
In Context
155Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
Psalms 51:1Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 86:13For your loving kindness is great towards me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!
Isaiah 63:7I will tell of the loving kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has given to us, and the great goodness towards the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
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 →