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Psalm 119:76

Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.

74Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I have put my hope in your word.
75LORD, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
76Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort, according to your word to your servant.
77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
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Notice

The request for comfort comes just after an acknowledgment of affliction, showing how trust in God’s faithfulness can coexist with a need for tenderness.

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Where else Scripture says this

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

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Psalm 106:4–5Remember me, LORD, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,Both prayers ask for a personal share in God’s care, expressed as loving kindness in one and favor in the other.
Psalm 33:22Let your loving kindness be on us, LORD, since we have hoped in you.Both prayers ask for God’s loving kindness, with one expressing hope in him and the other appealing to his word.
2 Corinthians 1:3–5Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,The psalm seeks comfort from God’s loving kindness; Paul blesses God as the Father of mercies and God of all comfort.
Psalm 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.Both texts connect calling on God with his loving kindness, which Psalm 86 describes as abundant.
Psalm 119:58I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.Both prayers appeal to God’s word as the basis for asking him for mercy or comfort.
Where this verse fits

Grief. feeling distant from God. wanting a steady prayer habit.

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Encouragement

Being God’s servant does not erase your need for comfort. The psalm gives that need a place in prayer, grounded in God’s loving kindness and his 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).