Psalms 119:156
Great are your tender mercies, O LORD: restore life in me according to your judgments.
Updated King James Version
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 seek not your statutes.
157Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from your testimonies.
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
Psalms 51:1Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving kindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 86:13For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the low hell.
Psalms 119:25My soul cleaves unto the dust: you restore life in me according to your word.
Isaiah 63:7I will mention 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 →