Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances.
Parallel translations
- WEB Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.
- KJV Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
- NKJV Great are Your tender mercies, O Lord; Revive me according to Your judgments.
- NASB Great are Your mercies, Lord; Revive me according to Your judgments.
- NLT Lord, how great is your mercy; let me be revived by following your regulations.
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Quick answer
God's tender mercies are great, and the psalmist asks to be revived by His ordinances. He pleads on the basis of God's abundant compassion.
Overview
After noting the plight of the wicked, the psalmist turns to celebrate the greatness of God's 'tender mercies.' On that vast mercy he bases his repeated plea to be revived, restored to life and vigor. This abundant compassion is supremely displayed at the cross, where God's great mercy meets sinners in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
- Ps 86:13For great is Your loving devotion to me; You have delivered me from the depths of Sheol.
- Ps 51:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him after his adultery with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
- Isa 63:7I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
- Isa 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
- 2 Sam 24:14David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
- Ps 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
- 1 Chr 21:13David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
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