Parallel Verses

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O let thy loving mercies come unto me, that I may live; for thy 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 may your loving kindness comfort me as you promise in your word. 77 May Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.
78 Let the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie. I shall meditate on your precepts.

Cross References

Psalm 119:41

May your loving kindnesses also come to me, O Jehovah, your salvation according to your promise.

Psalm 1:2

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah (YHWH), and on his law he meditates (ponders) (speaks softly with deep thought) (studies) (contemplates) day and night.

Psalm 51:1-3

([[Psalm of David] when the prophet Nathan came to him after David's adultery with Bathsheba:]) Have mercy on me, O God, in keeping with your loving-kindness. According to your unlimited compassion, wipe out my transgressions.

Psalm 119:24

Your laws are my delight and counsel.

Psalm 119:47

I do love your commandments and will delight in them.

Psalm 119:174

I long for your salvation, O Jehovah. Your law is my delight.

Lamentations 3:22-23

We have not come to destruction because of Jehovah's loving kindness. His mercies are without end.

Daniel 9:18

O my God, incline your ear, and hear! Open your eyes, and behold our desolations and the city that is called by your name. We do not present our supplications before you because of our righteous merits, but according to your many mercies.

Hebrews 8:10-12

This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,' said Jehovah: 'I will put my teachings (laws) in their mind, I will write them upon their hearts (deep thought) (understanding). I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Jeremiah 31:32)

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