Psalms 77:9

King James Version

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" Selah

Geneva Bible (1587)
Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah.

Christian Standard Bible®
Has God forgotten to be gracious?Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” Selah

Hebrew Names Version
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

Easy-to-Read Version
Has God forgotten what mercy is? Has his compassion changed to anger?" Selah

Amplified Bible
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

American Standard Version
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah

Contemporary English Version
Have you forgotten how to have pity? Do you refuse to show mercy because of your anger?"

Complete Jewish Bible
Has his grace permanently disappeared? Is his word to all generations done away?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Is His promise come to an end for evermore?

King James Version (1611)
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut vp his tender mercies? Selah.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause.

English Revised Version
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah

Berean Standard Bible
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?" Selah

Lexham English Bible
Has God forgotten to have compassion? Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah

Literal Translation
Has God forgotten to be gracious; has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.

New Century Version
Has God forgotten mercy? Is he too angry to pity us?" Selah

New English Translation
Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has his anger stifled his compassion?"

New King James Version
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies?Selah

New Living Translation
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he slammed the door on his compassion? Interlude

New Life Bible
Has God forgotten to be loving and kind? Has He in anger taken away His loving-pity?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hath GOD, forgotten to show favour? Or hath he shut up, in anger, his compassions? Selah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(76-10) Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?

George Lamsa Translation
Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies?

Good News Translation
Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has anger taken the place of his compassion?"

New American Standard Bible
Has God forgotten to be gracious, Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hath God forgotten to be gratious? and will he shut vp his louing kindnesse in displeasure? Selah.

New Revised Standard
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" Selah

Darby Translation
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ethir schal God foryete to do mercy; ethir schal he withholde his mercies in his ire?

Young's Literal Translation
Hath God forgotten [His] favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.

World English Bible
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

Revised Standard Version
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" [Selah]

Update Bible Version
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

Bible in Basic English
Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hath the LORDE forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut vp his louynge kyndnesse in displeasure?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Has God forgotten to be gracious, Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

Legacy Standard Bible
Has God forgotten to be gracious,Or has He in anger shut up His compassion? Selah.

Contextual Overview

¹ I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. ² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. ³ I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴ Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. ⁷ Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? ⁸ Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? ⁹ Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. ¹⁰ And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Isaiah 40:27, Isaiah 49:14, Isaiah 49:15, Isaiah 63:15

shut up: Luke 13:25-28, Romans 11:32, *marg. 1 John 3:17

Reciprocal: Psalms 10:12 - forget Psalms 42:9 - Why hast Psalms 51:1 - tender Psalms 85:5 - angry Psalms 89:49 - where

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hath God forgotten to be gracious,.... He has not, is it possible that he should? as the Targum; it is not; he cannot forget the purposes of his grace and mercy, nor the covenant and promises of it, nor people the objects of it; and much less can he for his grace and mercy itself, so agreeable to his nature, what he delights in, and which he has proclaimed in Christ:

hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?; as an avaricious man shuts up his hand, and will not communicate liberally; or as the sea is shut up with doors, that its waters may not overflow; no, the mercies of God are not restrained, though unbelief says they are, at least queries if they are not, Isaiah 63:15, but Faith says they flow freely through Christ, and the people of God are crowned with lovingkindness and tender mercies; God gives liberally, and upbraideth not; and though he may hide his face in a little seeming wrath for a moment, yet with great mercies will he gather, and with everlasting kindness will he have mercy.

Selah. Isaiah 63:15- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? - Has he passed over mercy in administering his government? Has he ceased to remember that man needs mercy? Has he forgotten that this is an attribute of his own nature?

Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? - The original word here rendered “tender mercies” refers to the “bowels,” as the seat of compassion or mercy, in accordance with a usage common in Hebrew. See Psalms 25:6, note; Isaiah 16:11, note; Isaiah 63:15, note. Compare Luke 1:78 (in Greek); Philippians 1:8; Philippians 2:1; 1 John 3:17. We speak of the “heart” as the seat of affection and kindness. The Hebrews included the heart, but they used a more general word. The word rendered “shut up” means “closed;” and the question is whether his mercy was closed, or had ceased forever. The psalmist concludes that if this were done, it must be as the result of anger - anger in view of the sins of people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 77:9. Hath God - in anger shut up his tender mercies? — The tender mercies of God are the source whence all his kindness to the children of men flows. The metaphor here is taken from a spring, the mouth of which is closed, so that its waters can no longer run in the same channel; but, being confined, break out, and take some other course. Wilt thou take thy mercy from the Israelites, and give it to some other people? This he most certainly did. He took it from the Jews, and gave it to the Gentiles.