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Psalms 119:77
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Psalms 119:77
77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
77Let thy tender mercies come vnto me, that I may liue: for thy lawe is my delight.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:77
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Soft or delicate; young, weak, or not hardy; sensitive or responsive; compassionate or merciful, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To affect with great pleasure; to please highly; to give or afford high satisfaction or joy. A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study22¶ It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
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Open the full verse study174I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.
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Open the full verse study2But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
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Open the full verse study41Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word.
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Open the full verse study24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers.
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Open the full verse study47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
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Open the full verse study18O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
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Open the full verse study10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
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Open the full verse study1HAVE mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
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