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Psalm 119:77

Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.

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.
79Let those who fear you turn to me. They will know your statutes.
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The plea for “tender mercies” comes from someone who delights in God’s law and still needs God’s help to live.

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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 21:4He asked life of you and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.Both passages describe asking God for life; Psalm 21 also tells of God granting that request.
Psalm 119:92Unless your law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.Both verses connect delight in God’s law with life amid affliction, with one asking for mercy and the other recalling survival.
Psalm 119:174I have longed for your salvation, LORD. Your law is my delight.Both verses declare delight in God’s law while expressing a need for his saving help.
Lamentations 3:22–23It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.Both passages connect continued life with God’s mercies: the psalm asks for them, while Lamentations declares that they do not fail.
Psalm 119:14I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.Both verses express joy in God’s instruction, with Psalm 119:14 comparing that joy to the pleasure of riches.
Jeremiah 6:10To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, the LORD’s word has become a …Delight in God’s word is the shared concern, affirmed by the psalm’s speaker and absent among Jeremiah’s hearers.
Daniel 9:18My God, turn your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before …Both prayers appeal to God’s mercies, bringing human need before him and seeking his help.
Hebrews 8:10–12“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the Lord: “I will put my laws into their mind; I will also write …God’s law has an inward place in both passages: a source of delight in the psalm and written on hearts in Hebrews.
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Encouragement

Delight in God’s law does not remove your need for mercy. This prayer joins love for his commands with dependence on his tender care for life.

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