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Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
Psalms 25:6 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
  • BSB Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
  • ESV Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
  • NKJV Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old.
  • NASB Remember, Lord, Your compassion and Your faithfulness, For they have been from of old.
  • NLT Remember, O Lord, your compassion and unfailing love, which you have shown from long ages past.

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Quick answer

David appeals to God's everlasting tender mercies and steadfast love. He pleads on the basis of God's age-old, unchanging compassion.

Overview

David asks God to remember his mercy and covenant love, which have existed from of old. The appeal rests not on David's merit but on God's enduring, faithful character. This same steadfast love reaches its fullest expression in the cross of Christ, where God's ancient mercy toward sinners is decisively displayed.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 32

  • Col 3:12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
  • Luke 1:50And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
  • Ps 103:17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
  • Luke 1:78Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
  • 2 Cor 1:3Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
  • Mic 7:18–20Who 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.
  • Exod 34:6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
  • Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
  • 1 Jn 3:17But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
  • Ps 98:3He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  • Jer 33:11The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
  • Phil 2:1If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
  • Neh 9:19Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
  • Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
  • Ps 136:11–26And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever:
  • Luke 1:54He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
  • Ps 40:11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
  • Ps 119:77Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
  • 2 Chr 6:42O LORD God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.
  • Ps 106:1Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
  • Phil 1:8For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.
  • Gen 32:9And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
  • Gen 24:27And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
  • Ps 69:13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
  • Ps 77:7–12Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
  • Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Ps 69:16Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
  • Ps 103:4Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
  • Exod 15:13Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.
  • Ps 107:1O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
  • Luke 1:71–72That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
  • Ps 106:45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

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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 25:6 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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