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He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
Psalms 111:4 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
  • BSB He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
  • 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 tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
  • Ps 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
  • Ps 145:8Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
  • Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
  • Eph 1:6–8to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved,
  • Deut 31:19–30“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
  • Ps 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
  • Ps 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
  • 1 Cor 11:24–26When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
  • Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
  • Josh 4:21–24He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’
  • Exod 12:26–27It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
  • Exod 34:6–7Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
  • Josh 4:6–7that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
  • Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
  • Ps 78:4–8We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
  • Exod 13:14–15It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall tell him, ‘By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage.
  • 1 Tim 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Deut 4:9Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
  • Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn’t retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.

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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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