Psalms 119:76

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

KJV

Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.

ASV

Let, I pray thee, thy lovingkindness be for my comfort, According to thy word unto thy servant.

BBE

Let your mercy now be my comfort, as you have said to your servant.

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יְהִי־ ye·hi- let it be H1961 נָא na' please H4994 חַסְדְּךָ chas·de·kha covenant loyalty your H2617 לְנַחֲמֵנִי le·na·cha·me·ni to comfort me H5162 כְּאִמְרָתְךָ ke·'im·ra·te·kha according to word your H565 לְעַבְדֶּךָ le·'av·de·kha to servant your H5650

The early church

"O let Your merciful kindness be my comfort, according to Your word unto Your servant" [Psalm 119:76]. Next mercy, whereby we are renewed unto life, by the promise of Him whose blessing is His grace. For this reason he says, "according to Your Word unto Your servant:" that is, according to that which You have promised unto Your servant. Whether therefore it be regeneration whereby we are here adopted among the sons of God, or faith and hope and charity, which three are built up in us, although they come from the mercy of God; nevertheless, in this stormy and troublesome life they are the consolations of the miserable, not the joys of the blessed.

Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 73–80

God made us to serve him, and enjoy him; but by sin we have made ourselves unfit to serve him, and to enjoy him. We ought, therefore, continually to beseech him, by his Holy Spirit, to give us understanding. The comforts some have in God, should be matter of joy to others. But it is easy to own, that God's judgments are right, until it comes to be our own case. All supports under affliction must come from mercy and compassion. The mercies of God are tender mercies; the mercies of a father, the compassion of a mother to her son. They come to us when we are not able to go to them. Causeless reproach does not hurt, and should not move us. The psalmist could go on in the way of his duty, and find comfort in it. He valued the good will of saints, and was desirous to keep up his communion with them. Soundness of heart signifies sincerity in dependence on God, and devotedness to him.

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