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Wednesday, October 30th, 2024
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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King James Version

Psalms 25:6

Remember, O Lord , thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Loving-Kindness of God, the;   Mercy of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mercy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mercy, Merciful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   English Versions;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Nomism;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Remember, O Lord , your compassion and unfailing love, which you have shown from long ages past.
English Revised Version
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
Update Bible Version
Remember, O Yahweh, your tender mercies and your loving-kindness; For they have been ever of old.
New Century Version
Lord , remember your mercy and love that you have shown since long ago.
New English Translation
Remember your compassionate and faithful deeds, O Lord , for you have always acted in this manner.
Webster's Bible Translation
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses; for they [have been] ever of old.
World English Bible
Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your lovingkindness, For they are from old times.
Amplified Bible
Remember, O LORD, Your [tender] compassion and Your lovingkindnesses, For they have been from of old.
English Standard Version
Remember your mercy, O Lord , and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, haue thou mynde of thi merciful doyngis; and of thi mercies that ben fro the world.
Berean Standard Bible
Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.
Contemporary English Version
Please, Lord , remember, you have always been patient and kind.
American Standard Version
Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.
Bible in Basic English
O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.
Complete Jewish Bible
Remember your compassion and grace, Adonai ; for these are ages old.
Darby Translation
Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting.
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember to be kind to me, Lord . Show me the tender love that you have always had.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Remember, O LORD, Thy compassions and Thy mercies; for they have been from of old.
King James Version (1611)
Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy louing kindnesses: for they haue beene euer of old.
New Life Bible
Remember Your loving-pity and Your loving-kindness, O Lord. For they have been from old.
New Revised Standard
Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord , and of your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Remember, O Lorde, thy tender mercies, and thy louing kindnesse: for they haue beene for euer.
George Lamsa Translation
Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they are from the beginning of the world.
Good News Translation
Remember, O Lord , your kindness and constant love which you have shown from long ago.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Remember thy compassions, O Yahweh, and thy lovingkindnesses, For, from age-past times, have they been.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(24-6) Remember, O Lord, thy bowels of compassion; and thy mercies that are from the beginning of the world.
Revised Standard Version
Be mindful of thy mercy, O LORD, and of thy steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Call to remembraunce O God thy tender mercies & thy louyng kindnesse: for they haue ben for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Remember thy compassions, O Lord, and thy mercies, for they are from everlasting.
Christian Standard Bible®
Remember, Lord, your compassionand your faithful love,for they have existed from antiquity.
Hebrew Names Version
LORD, remember your tender mercies and your lovingkindness, For they are from old times.
Lexham English Bible
Remember your compassion, O Yahweh, and your acts of loyal love, because they are from of old.
Literal Translation
Remember, O Jehovah, Your compassions and Your mercies; for they are from eternity.
Young's Literal Translation
Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age [are] they.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Call to remembraunce, O LORDE, thy tender mercyes & thy louinge kyndnesses, which haue bene euer of olde.
THE MESSAGE
Mark the milestones of your mercy and love, God ; Rebuild the ancient landmarks!
New American Standard Bible
Remember, LORD, Your compassion and Your faithfulness, For they have been from of old.
New King James Version
Remember, O LORD, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Remember, O Lord , Your compassion and Your lovingkindnesses, For they have been from of old.
Legacy Standard Bible
Remember, O Yahweh, Your compassion and Your lovingkindnesses,For they have been from of old.

Contextual Overview

1 Unto thee, O Lord , do I lift up my soul. 2 O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 3 Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. 4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths. 5 Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. 6 Remember, O Lord , thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord .

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remember: Psalms 98:3, Psalms 106:45, Psalms 136:23, 2 Chronicles 6:42, Luke 1:54, Luke 1:71, Luke 1:72

thy tender mercies: Heb. bowels, Psalms 40:11, Psalms 69:13, Psalms 69:16, Psalms 103:4, Psalms 119:77, Isaiah 55:7, Isaiah 63:15, Jeremiah 31:20, Luke 1:78, *marg. 2 Corinthians 1:3, Philippians 1:8, Philippians 2:1, Colossians 3:12, 1 John 3:17

for they: Psalms 77:7-12, Psalms 103:17, Psalms 106:1, Psalms 107:1, Psalms 136:11-26, Genesis 24:27, Genesis 32:9, Exodus 15:13, Exodus 34:6, Nehemiah 9:19, Jeremiah 33:11, Micah 7:18-20, Luke 1:50

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:18 - General Nehemiah 5:19 - Think Nehemiah 13:22 - spare me Job 10:9 - Remember Psalms 51:1 - O God Psalms 132:1 - remember Isaiah 63:11 - he remembered James 5:11 - the Lord is

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 25:1
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
Genesis 25:2
And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.
Genesis 25:11
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.
Genesis 25:13
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Genesis 25:14
And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
Genesis 25:15
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
Genesis 30:4
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses,.... Not the providential mercy and kindness of God, in the care of him in his mother's womb, at the time of his birth, in his nurture and education, and in the preservation of him to the present time; but the special mercy, grace, and love of God in Christ: the sense of the petition is the same with that of Psalms 106:4; which are expressed in the plural number, because of the largeness and abundance of it, and because of the various acts and instances of it; the Lord is rich and plenteous in mercy, abundant in goodness; his love is exceeding great, and numerous are the ways and methods in which it is declared, both in eternity and in time; and though he can never forget his love, nor the people whom he loves, for they are engraven on his hand, and set as a seal on his heart; yet he sometimes seems, by the conduct of his providence, as if he did not remember it, and had no tender affection for them; and their unbelief is ready to say, the Lord has forgotten to be gracious; and the design of such a petition as this is to entreat a fresh discovery and application of the grace, mercy, and loving kindness of God, and which he allows his people to put him in remembrance of;

for they [have been] ever of old: meaning not only from the time of his birth, and in after appearances of God for him, nor the favours shown to the people of Israel in former times at the Red sea, and in the wilderness and elsewhere, and to the patriarchs from the beginning of the world; but the love of God from everlasting, which appears in the choice of his people in Christ, before the foundation of the world, in the everlasting covenant of grace made with him, and in the setting of him up as the Mediator of it, and in putting his people into his hands, with all grace and spiritual blessings for them before the world began; and which love as it is from everlasting it is to everlasting, and remains invariably the same.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remember, O Lord - That is, In thy future treatment of me, bring to remembrance what thou hast done, and treat me in the same manner still. The language is that of one who felt that God had always been kind and gracious, and who asked for the future a continuance of the favors of the past. If we would recall, the goodness of God in the past, we should find enough to lay the foundation of prayer in reference to that which is to come. If we saw and fully understood all that has happened to us, we would need to offer no other prayer than that God might deal with us in the future as He has done in the past.

Thy tender mercies - Margin, as in Hebrew: “thy bowels.” The Hebrew word means the “inner parts” regarded by the Hebrews as the seat of the affections. See the notes at Isaiah 16:11.

And thy loving-kindnesses - Thy tokens of favor; thy acts of mercy and compassion.

For they have been ever of old - “For from eternity are they.” The language is that of a heart deeply impressed with a sense of the goodness God. In looking over his own life, the author of the psalm saw that the mercies of God had been unceasing and constant toward him from his earliest years. In words expressive of warm love and gratitude, therefore, he says that those acts of mercy had never failed - had been from eternity. His thoughts rise from the acts of God toward himself to the character of God, and to His attributes of mercy and love; and his heart is full of the idea that God is “always” good; that it belongs to His very nature to do good.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 25:6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy loving-kindness — The word רחמים rachamim, means the commiseration that a man feels in his bowels at the sight of distress. The second word, חסדים chasadim, signifies those kindnesses which are the offspring of a profusion of benevolence.

They have been ever of old. — Thou wert ever wont to display thyself as a ceaseless fountain of good to all thy creatures.


 
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