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 lovingkindness comfort me,
According to Your word to Your servant.
77 May Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.
78 May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie;
But I shall meditate on Your precepts.


Cross References

Psalm 119:41

Vav.
May Your lovingkindnesses also come to me, O Lord,
Your salvation according to Your word;

Psalm 1:2

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 51:1-3

For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 119:24

Your testimonies also are my delight;
They are my counselors.

Psalm 119:47

I shall delight in Your commandments,
Which I love.

Psalm 119:174

I long for Your salvation, O Lord,
And Your law is my delight.

Lamentations 3:22-23

The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.

Daniel 9:18

O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

Hebrews 8:10-12

For 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 minds,
And I will write them on their hearts.
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.

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