“"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…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 119
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76Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
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74They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
75I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
— Psalms 119:76 —
77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.