Psalms 119:77

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; For thy law is my delight.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְבֹא֣וּנִי רַחֲמֶ֣יךָ וְאֶֽחְיֶ֑ה כִּי־תֽ֝וֹרָתְךָ֗ שַֽׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי׃

Transliteration

Let come to me yəḇōʾûnî your mercies raḥămêḵā and I will live wəʾeḥyê; for kî your law ṯôrāṯəḵā is my delight šaʿăšuʿāy.

Grammar Details

*yəḇōʾûnî*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural jussive + 1st person singular suffix - let them come to me
*raḥămêḵā*: masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your compassions/mercies
*wəʾeḥyê*: conjunction + qal imperfect 1st person singular cohortative - and I will live
*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*ṯôrāṯəḵā*: noun feminine singular construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your law
*šaʿăšuʿāy*: masculine plural construct + 1st person singular suffix - my delights

Word Meanings

*yəḇōʾûnî*: let come to me/may come to me
*raḥămêḵā*: your compassions/your tender mercies/your mercy
*wəʾeḥyê*: and I will live/and let me live/and I may live
*ṯôrāṯəḵā*: your law/your instruction/your teaching
*šaʿăšuʿāy*: my delight/my pleasure/my enjoyment

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 119:41 : 41 VAV. Let thy lovingkindnesses also come unto me, O Jehovah, Even thy salvation, according to thy word.
Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, Which I have loved.
Ps 119:174 : 174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah; And thy law is my delight.
Lam 3:22-23 : 22 [ It is of] Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
Dan 9:18 : 18 O 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 righteousness, but for thy great mercies' sake.
Heb 8:10-12 : 10 For 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 on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them {G1519} a God, And they shall be to me {G1519} a people: 11 And they shall not {G3361} teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no {G3361} more.
Ps 1:2 : 2 But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.
Ps 51:1-3 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.
Ps 119:24 : 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight [And] my counsellors.

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