Great are Your tender mercies, O Lord; Revive me according to Your judgments.
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.
- BSB Great are Your mercies, O LORD; revive me according to Your ordinances.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 8
- Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
- Ps 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
- Ps 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
- Isa 63:7I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
- Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
- 2 Sam 24:14David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
- Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
- 1 Chr 21:13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into Yahweh’s hand; for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
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