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He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
Psalms 111:4 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
  • KJV He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
  • NKJV He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; The Lord is gracious and full of compassion.
  • NASB He has caused His wonders to be remembered; The Lord is gracious and compassionate.
  • NLT He causes us to remember his wonderful works. How gracious and merciful is our Lord!

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Quick answer

God has made His wonderful works memorable, for He is gracious and merciful. He desires His people to remember His grace.

Overview

God establishes memorials, such as the Passover, so His mighty acts are not forgotten. The description 'gracious and merciful' echoes God's self-revelation to Moses (Exodus 34:6), the heart of His character. Remembering His works fuels gratitude and trust, and finds its climax in the Lord's Supper, the remembrance of Christ's redeeming grace (Luke 22:19).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Isa 63:7I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
  • Ps 103:8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
  • Ps 145:8The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
  • Ps 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
  • Eph 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
  • Deut 31:19–30Now therefore, write down for yourselves this song and teach it to the Israelites; have them recite it, so that it may be a witness for Me against them.
  • Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
  • Ps 78:38And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
  • 1 Cor 11:24–26and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”
  • Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
  • Josh 4:21–24Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
  • Exod 12:26–27When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
  • Exod 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
  • Josh 4:6–7to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
  • Ps 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
  • Ps 78:4–8We will not hide them from their children, but will declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD and His might, and the wonders He has performed.
  • Exod 13:14–15In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  • 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
  • Deut 4:9Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
  • Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 111:4 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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