15 O Lord God of Israel, (A)You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. (B)Here we are before You, (C)in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!”

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17 The Lord is righteous in all His ways,
Gracious in all His works.

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צ TSADDE

137 (A)Righteous are You, O Lord,
And upright are Your judgments.

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15 But (A)You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious,
Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

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You found his heart (A)faithful before You,
And made a (B)covenant with him
To give the land of the Canaanites,
The Hittites, the Amorites,
The Perizzites, the Jebusites,
And the Girgashites—
To give it to his descendants.
You (C)have performed Your words,
For You are righteous.

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14 Therefore the Lord has (A)kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for (B)the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.

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O Lord, (A)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

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And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord (A)God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in (B)goodness and (C)truth, (D)keeping mercy for thousands, (E)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, (F)by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”

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If we (A)confess our sins, He is (B)faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to (C)cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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But when (A)the kindness and the love of (B)God our Savior toward man appeared, (C)not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through (D)the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, (E)whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace (F)we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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But God, (A)who is rich in mercy, because of His (B)great love with which He loved us,

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to the praise of the glory of His grace, (A)by which He [a]made us accepted in (B)the Beloved.

(C)In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to (D)the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and [b]prudence,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:6 Lit. bestowed grace (favor) upon us
  2. Ephesians 1:8 understanding

20 Moreover (A)the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace (B)abounded much more, 21 so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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25 whom God set forth (A)as a [a]propitiation (B)by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over (C)the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 3:25 mercy seat

(A)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him.

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Jeremiah’s Question

12 Righteous (A)are You, O Lord, when I plead with You;
Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?

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21 Tell and bring forth your case;
Yes, let them take counsel together.
(A)Who has declared this from ancient time?
Who has told it from that time?
Have not I, the Lord?
(B)And there is no other God besides Me,
A just God and a Savior;
There is none besides Me.

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(A)One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.
[a]I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty,
And [b]on Your wondrous works.
Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts,
And I will declare Your greatness.
They shall [c]utter the memory of Your great goodness,
And shall sing of Your righteousness.

(B)The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and great in mercy.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 145:5 So with MT, Tg.; DSS, LXX, Syr., Vg. They
  2. Psalm 145:5 Lit. on the words of Your wondrous works
  3. Psalm 145:7 eagerly utter, lit. bubble forth

The Futility of Idols and the Trustworthiness of God

115 Not (A)unto us, O Lord, not unto us,
But to Your name give glory,
Because of Your mercy,
Because of Your truth.

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(A)Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;
He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

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For (A)You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,
And abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You.

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33 However (A)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (B)we have done wickedly.

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