KJV King James Version
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
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Psalm 77:9
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
WEB World English Bible
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.
ASV American Standard Version
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? [Selah
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Hath God forgotten His favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.
Surrounding context — Psalm 77
6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?
9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
10 And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High.
11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
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Isaiah 49:14-15But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.Psalm 40:11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.Isaiah 40:27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?1 John 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?Luke 13:25-28When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:Psalm 51:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.Isaiah 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?Romans 11:32For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.Psalm 25:6Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they [have been] ever of old.
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