John Gill Commentary Psalms 119:77

"Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; For thy law is my delight." — Psalms 119:77 (ASV)

Let your tender mercies come unto me
(See Gill on Psalms 119:41);

that I may live ;
not merely corporeally; though corporeal life is a grant and favour, and the continuance of it; it is owing to the tender mercies of God that men are not consumed: but spiritually; the first principle of spiritual life is from the rich mercy and great love of God; his time of love is a time of life.

Here it seems to design the lively exercise of grace, which is influenced, animated, and quickened by the love of God, as faith, hope, and love; or a living comfortably: without the love of God, and a view of it, saints look upon themselves as dead men, forgotten as they are, free among the dead, that are remembered no more; but in the favour of God is life; let but that be shown, let the tender mercies of God come in full flow into the soul, and it will be revived, and live comfortably; and such also shall live eternally, as the fruit and effect of the same love and favour;

for your law [is] my delight ;
or "delights" ^F21 ; what he exceedingly delighted in, after the inward man, and yet could not live by it, without the mercy, love, and grace of God; see (Psalms 119:24Psalms 119:47Psalms 119:70) .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F21:
  F21 (yevev) "deliciae meae", Montanus, Tigurine versions Cocceius; "oblectationes meae", Gejerus; so Michaelis.