Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.
- KJV Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
- 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.
- 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
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- Col 3:12Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
- Luke 1:50His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him.
- Ps 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
- Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
- 2 Cor 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
- Mic 7:18–20Who 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.
- Exod 34:6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
- Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.
- 1 Jn 3:17But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?
- Ps 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness 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 those who say, ‘Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever;’ who bring thanksgiving into Yahweh’s house. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first,” says Yahweh.
- Phil 2:1If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
- Neh 9:19yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
- Jer 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.
- Ps 136:11–26And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving kindness endures forever;
- Luke 1:54He has given help to Israel, his servant, that he might remember mercy,
- Ps 40:11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
- Ps 119:77Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- 2 Chr 6:42“Yahweh God, don’t turn away the face of your anointed. Remember your loving kindnesses to David your servant.”
- Ps 106:1Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
- Phil 1:8For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.
- Gen 32:9Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, ‘Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’
- Gen 24:27He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”
- Ps 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
- Ps 77:7–12“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
- Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
- Ps 69:16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
- Ps 103:4who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
- Exod 15:13“You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
- Ps 107:1Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
- Luke 1:71–72salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all who hate us;
- Ps 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
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