Psalms 119:156
Great are your tender mercies, Lord.Revive me according to your ordinances.
New Heart English Bible
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 do not 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 hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the hand of man."
Psalms 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.Have 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 toward 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 make mention of the loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has bestowed on 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 →