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Psalm 119:156

Great are your tender mercies, LORD. Revive me according to your ordinances.

154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
155Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
156Great are your tender mercies, LORD. Revive me according to your ordinances.
157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
158I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.
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Tender mercies and ordinances belong in the same prayer here, joining the need for renewed life with trust in God's rule.

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2 Samuel 24:14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”David and the psalmist both appeal to the greatness of the LORD's mercies when they need help.
Psalm 119:25My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!Both prayers ask God to revive the speaker according to what God has spoken or ordained.
Psalm 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.Both verses name God's mercy as part of his character, with language that stresses its abundance.
Psalm 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.Both declare God's kindness great, though one asks for renewed life and the other recounts deliverance.
Psalm 119:40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. VAVBoth ask God for revival, linking that request with his righteousness or ordinances.
Isaiah 63:7I will tell of the loving kindnesses of the LORD and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD has given to us, and the great goodness toward the …Both speak of the LORD's abundant mercy, which Isaiah recounts through God's goodness toward Israel.
1 Chronicles 21:13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”Both prayers turn toward the LORD for help because his mercies are great.
Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely …Both identify the LORD as merciful; Isaiah speaks of pardon, while the psalm asks for revival.
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The plea for revival comes from someone who trusts God's mercy and still needs help. God's tender mercies remain great while that plea awaits an answer.

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