Psalms 119:77
Let your tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for your law is my delight.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
In Context
76Let, I pray you, your merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to your word unto your servant.
Cross References
Psalms 1:2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.
Psalms 119:16I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
Psalms 119:24Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.leth.
Psalms 119:47And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.
Lamentations 3:22It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Hebrews 8:10For 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, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a 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 →