Parallel Verses
Amplified
Let Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.
New American Standard Bible
For Your law is my
King James Version
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
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.
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
O may Your lovingkindness and graciousness comfort me,
According to Your word (promise) to Your servant.
Let Your compassion come to me that I may live,
For Your law is my delight.
Let the arrogant be ashamed and humiliated, for they sabotage me with a lie;
But I will meditate on Your precepts.
Cross References
Psalm 119:41
Vav.
May Your lovingkindness also come to me, O Lord,
Your salvation according to Your promise;
Psalm 1:2
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night.
Psalm 51:1-3
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 119:24
Your testimonies also are my delight
And my counselors.
Psalm 119:47
For 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
It is because of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed,
Because His [tender] compassions never fail.
Daniel 9:18
O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and look at our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not presenting our supplications before You because of our own merits and righteousness, but because of Your great mercy and 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 imprint My laws upon their minds [even upon their innermost thoughts and understanding],
And engrave them upon their hearts [effecting their regeneration].
And I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.