1 Chronicles 21:13

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And David said to Gad: I am on every side in a great strait; but it is better for me to fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are many, than into the hands of men.

Cross References

Hebrews 10:31

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Philippians 1:23

But I am straitened between two: having a desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ, a thing by far the better.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the wicked forsake his way and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord; and he will have mercy on him: and to our God, for he is bountiful to forgive.

John 12:27

Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

Isaiah 63:7

I will remember the tender mercies of the Lord, the praise of the Lord for all the things that the Lord hath bestowed upon us: and for the multitude of his good things to the house of Israel, which he hath given them according to his kindness and according to the multitude of his mercies.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, I have polluted my inheritance and have given them into thy hand. Thou hast shewn no mercy to them: upon the ancient thou hast laid thy yoke exceeding heavy.

Isaiah 46:7

They bear him on their shoulders and carry him and set him in his place: and he shall stand and shall not stir out of his place. Yea, when they shall cry also unto him, he shall not hear: he shall not save them from tribulation.

Proverbs 12:10

The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

Psalm 106:7

And he led them into the right way: that they might go to a city of habitation.

Psalm 103:8

The mountains ascend, and the plains descend into the place which thou hast founded for them.

Psalm 86:5

Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

Psalm 5:7

Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity: thou wilt destroy all that speak a lie. The bloody and the deceitful man the Lord will abhor:

2 Chronicles 28:9

At that time there was a prophet of the Lord there, whose name was Oded. And he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: Behold, the Lord the God of your fathers, being angry with Juda, hath delivered them into your hands, and you have butchered them cruelly, so that your cruelty hath reached up to heaven.

2 Kings 7:4

If we will enter into the city, we shall die with the famine: and if we will remain here, we must also die. Come, therefore, and let us run over to the camp of the Syrians. If they spare us, we shall live: but if they kill us, we shall but die.

2 Kings 6:15

And the servant of the man of God rising early went out, and saw an army round about the city, and horses and chariots. And he told him, saying: Alas, alas, alas, my lord, what shall we do?

Habakkuk 3:2

O Lord, I have heard thy hearing, and was afraid. O Lord, thy work, in the midst of the years bring it to life: In the midst of the years thou shalt make it known: when thou art angry, thou wilt remember mercy.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like to thee, who takest away iniquity, and passest by the sin of the remnant of thy inheritance? he will send his fury in no more, because he delighteth in mercy.

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

Jonah 3:9

Who can tell if God will turn, and forgive: and will turn away from his fierce anger, and we shall not perish?

Lamentations 3:32

Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.

Isaiah 63:15

Look down from heaven and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory. Where is thy zeal and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels and of thy mercies? They have held back themselves from me.