Psalms 77:9
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
BSB
ASV
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? [Selah
KJV
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Has El, the Mighty One, become great in everything but grace? Does he know how to afflict, but not how to uphold? Can he forget anything? Above all, can he forget to exercise that attribute which lies nearest to his essence, for he is love? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Are the pipes of goodness choked up so that love can no more flow through them? Do the bowels of Jehovah no longer yearn towards his own beloved children?
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? No; his mercy endures for ever; as it is from everlasting, it is to everlasting, Ps. ciii. Doth his promise fail for evermore?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Romans 11:32For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
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But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
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Psalms 40:11O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
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Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.
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Isaiah 40:27Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
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But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
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Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
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Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”