Psalms 119:77
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
In Context
76Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
Cross References
Psalms 1:2but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.
Psalms 119:24Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.
Psalms 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.
Lamentations 3:22It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
Hebrews 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: “I will put my laws into their mind; I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:77-78
76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. Here is, 1. An earnest petition to God for his favour. Those that own the justice of God in their afflictions (as David had done, v. 75 ) may, in faith, and with humble boldness, be earnest for the mercy of God, and the tokens and fruits of that mercy, in their affliction. He prays for God's merciful kindness ( v. 76 ), his tender… Read the whole commentary →