Psalms 119:156
Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord: quicken me according to thy iudgements.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
In Context
155Saluation is farre from the wicked, because they seeke not thy statutes.
157My persecutours and mine oppressours are many: yet doe I not swarue from thy testimonies.
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:14And Dauid said vnto Gad, I am in a wonderfull strait: let vs fall nowe into the hand of the Lord, (for his mercies are great) and let mee not fall into the hand of man.
Psalms 51:1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercie vpon me, O God, according to thy louing kindnes: according to the multitude of thy compassions put away mine iniquities.
Psalms 86:13For great is thy mercie toward me, and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest graue.
Psalms 119:25DALETH. My soule cleaueth to the dust: quicken me according to thy worde.
Isaiah 63:7I wil remember the mercies of the Lord and the prayses of the Lord according vnto all that the Lord hath giuen vs, and for the great goodnesse toward the house of Israel, which hee hath giuen them according to his tender loue, and according to his great 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 →