English Standard Version
Psalms 25:6
6Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
Psalms 25:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
- New International Version (NIV)Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, For they are from of old.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Remember, O Lord, your compassion and unfailing love, which you have shown from long ages past.
Context of Psalms 25:6
4Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. 5Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. 7Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O Lord! 8Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
Read all of Psalms 25Psalms 25:6 word by word
זְכֹר־רַחֲמֶ֣יךָ יְ֭הוָה וַחֲסָדֶ֑יךָ כִּ֖י מֵעוֹלָ֣ם הֵֽמָּה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 25:6
- Psalms 98:3He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
- Psalms 106:45For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
- Psalms 136:23It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever;
- 2 Chronicles 6:42O Lord God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant."
- Luke 1:54He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,
- Psalms 40:11As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!
- Psalms 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
- Psalms 103:4who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
- Psalms 119:77Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
- Isaiah 55:7let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
- Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion are held back from me.
- Jeremiah 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him still. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the Lord.
- Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
- 2 Corinthians 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
- Philippians 1:8For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 2:1So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
Commentaries on Psalms 25:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Remember, 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Remember, 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6compassion: See also Psalms 51:1; 57:1; 103:8.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-76-7. Confessing past and present sins, he pleads for mercy, not on palliations of sin, but on God's well-known benevolence.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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