Psalms 116:5
The LORD is gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
In Context
4Then I called on the LORD’s name: “LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul.”
6The LORD preserves the simple. I was brought low, and he saved me.
Cross References
Exodus 34:6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
Nehemiah 9:8found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words, for you are righteous.
Nehemiah 9:31“Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you didn’t make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
Psalms 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
Psalms 103:8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Psalms 115:1Not to us, LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your 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 →