Psalms 119:77
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
Psalms 119:77 in other translations
| BSB | May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight. |
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| WEB | Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight. |
| ASV | Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; For thy law is my delight. |
| YLT | Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law is my delight. |
| DARBY | Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight. |
| BBE | Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight. |
| Webster | Let thy tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. |
What does Psalms 119:77 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:75-78
75-78. in faithfulness--that is, without in the least violating Thy faithfulness; because my sins deserved and needed fatherly chastisement. Enduring chastisement with a filial temper (He 12:6-11), God's promises of mercy (Ro 8:28) will be fulfilled, and He will give comfort in sorrow (La 3:22; 2Co 1:3, 4).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:73-80
God made us to serve him, and enjoy him; but by sin we have made ourselves unfit to serve him, and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to beseech him, by his Holy Spirit, to give us understanding. The comforts some have in God, should be matter of joy to others. But it is easy to own, that God's judgments are right, until it comes to be our own case. All supports under affliction must come from mercy and…
Psalms 119:77 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:77
- Lamentations 3:22-23
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
- Psalms 119:174
I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.
- Psalms 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
- Psalms 119:41
ו VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
- Psalms 119:24
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
- Psalms 119:47
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
- Hebrews 8:10-12
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith 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: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
- Daniel 9:18
O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
- Psalms 51:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath–sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
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- Psalms 119:76
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
- Psalms 119:77
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
- Psalms 119:78
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Psalms 119:77 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Vengan á mí tus misericordias, y viva; porque tu ley es mi deleite. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Que tes compassions viennent sur moi, et je vivrai; car ta loi fait mes délices. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Laß deine Erbarmungen über mich kommen, so werde ich leben; denn dein Gesetz ist meine Wonne. |