Psalms 116:5
Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; and our God is merciful.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
In Context
4I then called on the name of the Lord, I beseech thee, O Lord, release my soul.
6The Lord preserveth the simple: I was in misery, and he helped me.
Cross References
Exodus 34:6And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord is the immutable, eternal Being, the omnipotent God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in beneficence and truth;
Nehemiah 9:8And thou didst find his heart faithful before thee: and thou madest with him the covenant to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Emorites, and the Perizittes, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashite—to give it to his seed: and thou hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous.
Nehemiah 9:31Yet in thy abundant mercies hast thou not made an entire end of them, and thou hast not forsaken them; for a gracious and merciful God art thou.
Psalms 86:5For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, and abundant in kindness unto all that call on thee.
Psalms 103:8Merciful and gracious is the Lord, long-suffering and abundant in kindness.
Psalms 115:1Not for our sake, O Lord, not for our sake, but unto thy name give glory, for the sake of thy kindness, for the sake of thy truth.
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 →