Psalm 119:41 | “Let your steadfast love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise.”

The psalmist begins the waw stanza by pleading for God’s hesed love to come to him. The parallel phrase, “your salvation,” shows that his request for steadfast love is also a plea for deliverance. The word hesed is plural in Hebrew, perhaps to highlight the abundance of God’s loving acts and the many ways his faithfulness is displayed. Spurgeon brilliantly writes about the “aggregate of mercies” the believer receives: “What a mass of mercies are heaped together in the one salvation of our Lord Jesus! It includes the mercies which spare us before our conversion, and lead up to it. Then comes calling mercy, regenerating mercy, converting mercy, justifying mercy, pardoning mercy. Nor can we exclude from complete salvation any of those many mercies which are needed to conduct the believer safe to glory. Salvation is an aggregate of mercies incalculable in number, priceless in value, incessant in application, eternal in endurance. To the God of our mercies be glory, world without end.”