Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Thy compassion shall come to me and I shall 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.

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.

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 Now shall thy mercy be to comfort me, according to thy word to thy servant 77 Thy compassion shall come to me and I shall live, for thy law is my delight 78 The proud shall be ashamed, for they acted perversely to me without cause: I will meditate in thy charges


Cross References

Psalm 119:41

And thy mercy shall come to me, O Jehovah, thy salvation according to thy saying.

Psalm 1:2

But his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and in his law he will meditate day and night

Psalm 51:1-3

To the overseer: chanting to David; In the coming to him of Nathan the prophet, when he went in to Bathsheba. Compassionate me, O God, according to thy mercy: according to the Multitude of thy compassions wipe away my transgressions.

Psalm 119:24

Also thy testimonies my delight, the men of my counsel.

Psalm 119:47

I will delight myself in thy commands which I loved.

Psalm 119:174

I longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah, and thy law is my delight

Lamentations 3:22-23

The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished.

Daniel 9:18

Incline, O my God, thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which thy name was called upon it: for not for our justice do we cause our supplications to fall before thee, but for thy many compassions.

Hebrews 8:10-12

For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:

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