Parallel Verses
King James Version
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
New American Standard Bible
For Your law is my
Holman Bible
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.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:77
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yod
76 Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight. 78 Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
Cross References
Psalm 119:41
VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Psalm 51:1-3
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 119:24
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers.
Psalm 119:47
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Psalm 119:174
I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Lamentations 3:22-23
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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.
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: