Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O let thy loving mercies come unto me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight.

New American Standard Bible

May Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.

King James Version

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

Holman Bible

May Your compassion come to me
so that I may live,
for Your instruction is my delight.

International Standard Version

May your mercies come to me that I may live, for your instruction is my delight.

A Conservative Version

Let thy tender mercies come to me that I may live, for thy law is my delight.

American Standard Version

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; For thy law is my delight.

Amplified


Let Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.

Bible in Basic English

Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.

Darby Translation

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy compassion shall come to me and I shall live, for thy law is my delight

King James 2000

Let your tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for your law is my delight.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Let your mercies come [to] me, that I may live, for your law [is] my delight.

Modern King James verseion

Let Your tender mercies come to me so that I may live; for Your Law is my delight.

NET Bible

May I experience your compassion, so I might live! For I find delight in your law.

New Heart English Bible

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your Law is my delight.

The Emphasized Bible

Let thy compassions reach me, that I may live, for, thy law, is my dear delight.

Webster

Let thy tender mercies come to me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.

World English Bible

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

Youngs Literal Translation

Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law is my delight.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Yod

76 O let thy merciful kindness be my comfort, according to the promise that thou hast made unto thy servant. 77 O let thy loving mercies come unto me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight. 78 Let the proud be confounded, for they go wickedly about to destroy me; but I will be occupied in thy commandments.

Cross References

Psalm 119:41

{Vav} Let thy loving mercies come unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according unto thy word;

Psalm 1:2

But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in his law will he exercise himself, day and night.

Psalm 51:1-3

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

Psalm 119:24

For thy testimonies are my delight, and my counsellors.

Psalm 119:47

My delight shall be in thy commandments, which I love.

Psalm 119:174

I long for thy saving health, O LORD; and in thy law is my delight.

Lamentations 3:22-23

{Khet} Namely, that the mercies of the LORD are not clean gone, and that his loving-kindness ceaseth not.

Daniel 9:18

O my God, incline thine ear, and hearken; at the least for thine own sake, open thine eyes. Behold how we be desolated: yea, and the city also, which is called after thy name. For we do not cast our prayers before thee in our own righteousnesses, no, but only in thy great mercies.

Hebrews 8:10-12

For this is the testament that I will make with the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws in their minds, and in their hearts, I will write them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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