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Psalm 119:41

Let your loving kindness also come to me, LORD, your salvation, according to your word.

39Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.
40Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness. VAV
41Let your loving kindness also come to me, LORD, your salvation, according to your word.
42So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.
43Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth, for I put my hope in your ordinances.
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“Let your loving kindness also come to me” makes God's kindness a personal plea, grounded in his word while help is still being sought.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 69:16Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.Both prayers appeal to the LORD's loving kindness and ask for his help to reach the person praying.
Psalm 119:58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.Both prayers ask for God's mercy or loving kindness according to his word.
Psalm 119:76–77Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.Both ask for God's loving kindness according to his word, with one seeking salvation and the other comfort.
Luke 2:28–32then he received him into his arms and blessed God, and said,Both passages direct words toward God, though the psalm asks for help and Luke's opening line describes blessing God.
Psalm 119:132Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.Both prayers seek God's personal attention through a direct request for mercy or loving kindness.
Genesis 43:14May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”Both appeal to God for mercy, with Genesis naming the concrete hope that brothers will be released.
Genesis 49:18I have waited for your salvation, LORD.Both address the LORD as the source of salvation, expressing either a plea for it or waiting for it.
Luke 18:13But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his chest, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’Both make a personal appeal for God's mercy, while the tax collector also names himself a sinner.
Where this verse fits

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Encouragement

Your need for mercy has a place in prayer. The psalmist asks for loving kindness and salvation on the strength of God's word.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).