Psalm 119:77 {118:77}
Good News Translation
Have mercy on me, and I will live because I take pleasure in your law.

New Revised Standard Version
Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

Contemporary English Version
I love to obey your Law! Have mercy and let me live.

New American Bible
Show me compassion that I may live, for your law is my delight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.

thy tender

Psalm 119:42 So shall I answer them that reproach me in any thing; that I have trusted in thy words.

Psalm 51:1-3 Unto the end, a psalm of David, [2] When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had sinned with Bethsabee. [3] Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity. . . .

Lamentations 3:22,23 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed. . . .

Daniel 9:18 Incline, O my God, thy ear, and hear: open thy eyes, and see our desolation, and the city upon which thy name is called: for it is not for our justifications that we present our prayers before thy face, but for the multitude of thy tender mercies.

for thy

Psalm 119:24,47,174 For thy testimonies are my meditation: and thy justifications my counsel. . . .

Psalm 1:2 But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

Hebrews 8:10-12 For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind: and in their heart will I write them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
76O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. 77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.78Let the proud be ashamed, because they have done unjustly towards me: but I will be employed in thy commandments.…
Cross References
Psalm 119:16
I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.

Psalm 119:41
Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word.

Psalm 119:76
O! let thy mercy be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

Psalm 119:76
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