“Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.”
Let your steadfast love become my comfort, according to your promise to your servant. The petition requests that God's 'steadfast love' comfort the psalmist, grounded in divine promise. This verse appeals to covenant love as consolation.
Church Fathers on Psalms 119:76
1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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