Quotes About Mercy

For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.

“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.

In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.

Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear.

He saw that there was no man; He was amazed that there was no one to intercede. So His own arm brought salvation, and His own righteousness sustained Him.

Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.

Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!

This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ëDo not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,í so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.

Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?í This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”

Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ëReturn, O faithless Israel,í declares the LORD. ëI will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,í declares the LORD. ëI will not be angry forever.

A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.

They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.í”

Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.

For the sake of Your name do not despise us; do not disgrace Your glorious throne. Remember Your covenant with us; do not break it.

But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.

and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.