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He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.
Psalms 111:4 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
  • 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 mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
  • Ps 103:8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
  • Ps 145:8The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
  • Ps 86:5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
  • Eph 1:6–8To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
  • Deut 31:19–30Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
  • Ps 112:4Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
  • Ps 78:38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
  • 1 Cor 11:24–26And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
  • Rom 5:20–21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Josh 4:21–24And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
  • Exod 12:26–27And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
  • Exod 34:6–7And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
  • Josh 4:6–7That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
  • Ps 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
  • Ps 78:4–8We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
  • Exod 13:14–15And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
  • 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  • Deut 4:9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
  • Mic 7:18–19Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

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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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