Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

Let thy tender mercies come to 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.

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 Let, I pray thee, thy loving kindness be for my comfort according to thy word to thy servant. 77 Let thy tender mercies come to me that I may live, for thy law is my delight. 78 Let the proud be put to shame, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on thy precepts.


Cross References

Psalm 119:41

Let thy loving kindnesses also come to me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

Psalm 1:2

but his delight is in the law of LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 51:1-3

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Psalm 119:24

Thy testimonies also are my delight [and] my counselors.

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] LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.

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 righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sak

Hebrews 8:10-12

Because this is the covenant that I will ordain with the house of Israel after those days, says Lord, giving my laws into their mind, and I will write them on their hearts. And I will be to them for a God, and they will be to me fo

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