O Lord, God of Israel, you are just, but we have escaped as a remnant, as is now the case. Here we are before you in our guilt, though no one can face you because of this.”
Psalm 116:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Gracious is the Lord and righteous; our God is merciful. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; Yea, our God is merciful. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Gracious is the Lord, and [rigidly] righteous; yes, our God is merciful. American Standard Version (1901) Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; Yea, our God is merciful. Common English Bible The LORD is merciful and righteous; our God is compassionate. |
O Lord, God of Israel, you are just, but we have escaped as a remnant, as is now the case. Here we are before you in our guilt, though no one can face you because of this.”
they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.
Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.
You have been just in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly;
and you found his heart faithful before you and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
They rise in the darkness as a light for the upright; they are gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness.
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.
Declare and present your case; take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? There is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.
You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
So the Lord kept watch over this calamity until he brought it upon us. Indeed, the Lord our God is right in all that he has done, for we have disobeyed his voice.
“Righteousness is on your side, O Lord, but open shame, as at this day, falls on us, the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them because of the treachery that they have committed against you.
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, but we have rebelled against him
but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us
and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.