Lexicon :: Strong's H7356 - raḥam

By the God of your father who will help you,

And by the [fn]Almighty who blesses you

With blessings of the heavens above,

Blessings lying in the deep that couches beneath,

Blessings of the [nursing] breasts and of the [fertile] womb.

‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil?

A maiden (concubine) or two for every man;

A spoil of dyed garments for Sisera,

A spoil of dyed garments embroidered,

Two pieces of dyed garments embroidered for the neck of the plunderer?’

For I was [fn]cupbearer to the king [of Persia].

You, in Your great mercy and compassion,

Did not abandon them in the wilderness;

The pillar of the cloud did not leave them by day,

To lead them in the way,

Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way they should go.

“Therefore You handed them over to their enemies who oppressed them.

But when they cried out to You in the time of their suffering and distress,

You heard them from heaven, and according to Your great compassion You gave them [fn]people to rescue them.

Who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

“Yet in Your great compassion You did not utterly destroy them or abandon them,

For You are a gracious and merciful God.

Remember, O LORD, Your [tender] compassion and Your lovingkindnesses,

For they have been from of old.

Do not withhold Your compassion and tender mercy from me, O LORD;

Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had sinned with Bathsheba.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;

According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

Answer me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is sweet and good and comforting;

According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me.

Has God forgotten to be gracious?

Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.

Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,

For we have been brought very low.

Who redeems your life from the pit,

Who crowns you [lavishly] with lovingkindness and tender mercy;

He also made them objects of compassion

Among those who had carried them away captive.

Let Your compassion come to me that I may live,

For Your law is my delight.

Great are Your tender mercies and steadfast love, O LORD;

Revive me and give me life according to Your ordinances.

The LORD is good to all,

And His tender mercies are over all His works [the entirety of things created].

A righteous man has kind regard for the life of his animal,

But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

[fn]Sheol, and the barren womb,

Earth that is never satisfied with water,

And fire that never says, “It is enough.”

“Listen to Me,” [says the LORD], “O house of Jacob,

And all the remnant of the house of Israel,

You who have been carried by Me from your birth

And have been carried [in My arms] from the womb,

“I was angry with My people,

I profaned [Judah] My inheritance

And gave them into your hand [Babylon].

You showed them no mercy;

You made your yoke very heavy on the aged.

“For a brief moment I abandoned you,

But with great compassion and mercy I will gather you [to Myself again].

I will tell of the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD,

According to all that the LORD has done for us,

And His great goodness toward the house of Israel,

Which He has shown them according to His compassion

And according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.

Look down from heaven and see from Your lofty dwelling place, holy and glorious.

Where are Your zeal and Your mighty acts [Your miracles which you did for Your people]?

The stirring of Your heart and Your compassion are restrained and withheld from me.

For thus says the LORD, “Do not enter a house of mourning, nor go to lament (express grief) or bemoan [the dead], for I have taken My peace away from this people,” says the LORD, “even My lovingkindness and compassion.

It is because of the LORD’S lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed,

Because His [tender] compassions never fail.

“And I will betroth you (Israel) to Me forever;

Yes, I will betroth you to Me in righteousness and in justice,

In lovingkindness and loyalty, and in compassion.

Thus says the LORD,

“For three transgressions of Edom [the descendants of Esau] and for four (multiplied delinquencies)

I will not reverse its punishment or revoke My word concerning it,

Because he pursued his brother Jacob (Israel) with the sword,

Corrupting and stifling his compassions and casting off all mercy;

His destructive anger raged continually,

And he maintained [and nurtured] his wrath forever.