Psalms 116:5
Gracious is LORD, and righteous. Yea, our God is merciful.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
In Context
4Then I called upon the name of LORD. O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
6LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
Cross References
Exodus 34:6And LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, LORD, LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Nehemiah 9:8and found his heart faithful before thee, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed
Nehemiah 9:31Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou did not make a full end of them, nor forsake them, for thou are a gracious and merciful God.
Psalms 86:5For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.
Psalms 103:8LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Psalms 115:1Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to thy name give glory. For thy loving kindness, and for thy truth's sake.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 116:2-10
Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 I love the Lord , because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the Lord ; O Lord , I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord , and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped… Read the whole commentary →