Psalms 119:77

King James 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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Referenced Verses

Ps 119:41 : 41 VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, 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 LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Lam 3:22-23 : 22 It is of the LORD'S mercies 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 righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.
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 write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And 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. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Ps 1:2 : 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Ps 51:1-3 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came{H8800)} unto him, after he had gone in{H8804)} to Bathsheba. Have mercy{H8798)} upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out{H8798)} my transgressions. 2 Wash{H8761)} me throughly{H8685)} from mine iniquity, and cleanse{H8761)} me from my sin. 3 For I acknowledge{H8799)} 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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