Psalms 119:156
Thy mercies [are] many, O Jehovah, According to Thy judgments quicken me.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
In Context
155Far from the wicked [is] salvation, For Thy statutes they have not sought.
157Many [are] my pursuers, and adversaries, From Thy testimonies I have not turned aside.
Cross References
2 Samuel 24:14And David saith unto Gad, 'I have great distress, let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for many [are] His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.'
Psalms 51:1To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.
Psalms 86:13For Thy kindness [is] great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Psalms 119:25[Daleth.] Cleaved to the dust hath my soul, Quicken me according to Thy word.
Isaiah 63:7The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts.
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 →