...The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. Eze. xxxiv. 6.

Keeping mercy for thousands...7.

[For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;] he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee... Deut. iv. 31. ...Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.-Deut. v. 10.

Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him...to a thousand generations. Deut. vii. 9.

...The Lord will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers... Deut. xxx. 9.

With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful.-2 Sam. xxii. 26.

And David said unto God, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great...2 Sam. xxiv. 14.

...There is no God like thee in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart.-1 Kings viii. 23.

...And they blessed the king and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.-66.

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O give thanks unto the Lord: for he is good; for mercy endureth for ever.-1 Ch. xvi. 34.

...The Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.-2 Ch. xxx. 9.

For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia... Ezra ix. 9. ...Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.-Neh. ix. 17.

Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.-20.

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars. of heaven, and broughtest them into the land; concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.-23.

...So they did eat, and were filled,...and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.-25.

...Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.-Neh. xiii. 22.

For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved. Ps. xxi. 7.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life...Ps. xxiii. 6.

Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. Ps. xxv. 6.

...According to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O Lord.-Ps. xxv. 7.

Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.-8.

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes... Ps. xxvi. 3.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.— Ps. xxvii. 13.

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life... Ps. xxx. 5.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities.-Ps. xxxi. 7.

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!-19.

O taste and see that the Lord is good... Ps. xxxiv. 8. O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.-Ps. xxxvi. 10.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.-Ps. xl. 11.

Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake- Ps. xliv. 26.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy

lovingkindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.-Ps. li. 1. ...I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning... Ps. lix. 16.

...Unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy.—Ps. lxii. 12. Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.-Ps. lxiii. 3.

...Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.-Ps. lxv. 8.

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it...thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.-9.

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly... thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.-10.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.-11.

The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.-13.

Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.-Ps. lxvi. 20.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.-Ps. lxviii. 5. ...Thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.-10.

Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good : turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.-Ps. lxix. 16.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.-Ps. lxxiii. 1.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive: and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee. Ps. lxxxvi. 5.

For great is thy mercy toward me...13.

...Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.-15.

I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness. to all generations.-Ps. lxxxix. 1.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very

heavens.-2.

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.-14. My Mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.-28.

To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night.—Ps. xcii. 2.

The Lord hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.-Ps. xcviii. 2.

He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.-3.

For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.-Ps. c. v.