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Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Psalms 119:77

In 11 translations

BSB
May Your compassion come to me, that I may live, for Your law is my delight.
KJV
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
WEB
Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
ASV
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; For thy law is my delight.
LSV
Your mercies meet me, and I live, || For Your law [is] my delight.
YLT
Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law [is] my delight.
DBY
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for thy law is my delight.
DRC118:77
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, and I shall live: for thy law is my meditation.
GNV
Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue: for thy Lawe is my delite.
JPS
Let Thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for Thy law is my delight.
LXXE118:77
Let thy compassions come to me, that I may live: for thy law is my meditation.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
יְבֹא֣וּנִי רַחֲמֶ֣יךָ וְאֶֽחְיֶ֑ה כִּי־תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ שַֽׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃
LXX-Br118:77
Ἐλθέτωσάν μοι οἱ οἰκτιρμοί σου, καὶ ζήσομαι, ὅτι ὁ νόμος σου μελέτη μου ἐστίν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Lamentations 3:22–23Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
  • Psalms 119:174I long for Your salvation, O LORD, and Your law is my delight.
  • Psalms 119:41May Your loving devotion come to me, O LORD, Your salvation, according to Your promise.
  • Psalms 1:2But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
  • Psalms 119:47I delight in Your commandments because I love them.
  • Psalms 119:24Your testimonies are indeed my delight; they are my counselors.
  • Hebrews 8:10–12For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My…
  • Daniel 9:18Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great…
  • Psalms 51:1–3Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my…

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