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Psalms 25:6
6Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been 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
4Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. 5Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. 7Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good. 8Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways.
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 love and his faithfulness to Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
- Psalms 106:45for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his great love he relented.
- Psalms 136:23He remembered us in our low estate His love endures forever.
- 2 Chronicles 6:42Lord God, do not reject your anointed one. Remember the great love promised to David your servant.”
- Luke 1:54He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful
- Psalms 40:11Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me.
- Psalms 69:13But I pray to you, Lord, in the time of your favor; in your great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.
- Psalms 103:4who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,
- Psalms 119:77Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight.
- Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
- Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from your lofty throne, holy and glorious. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.
- Jeremiah 31:20Is not Ephraim my dear son, the child in whom I delight? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the Lord.
- Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
- 2 Corinthians 1:3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
- Philippians 1:8God can testify how I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 2:1Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
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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