Quotes About Mercy

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.

Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.

But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

O LORD our God, You answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, yet an avenger of their misdeeds.

He will turn toward the prayer of the destitute; He will not despise their prayer.

to hear a prisonerís groaning, to release those condemned to death,

He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,

The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His loving devotion for those who fear Him.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

So He said He would destroy them—had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to divert His wrath from destroying them.

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.