(A)Has God forgotten to be gracious?
    (B)Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

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14 But Zion said, (A)“The Lord has forsaken me;
    my Lord has forgotten me.”

15 (B)“Can a woman forget her nursing child,
    that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
    yet I will not forget you.

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11 As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain
    your mercy from me;
your (A)steadfast love and your faithfulness will
    ever preserve me!

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17 But (A)if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet (B)closes his heart against him, (C)how does God's love abide in him?

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32 For God (A)has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

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25 (A)When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, (B)‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, (C)‘I do not know where you come from.’ 26 Then you will begin to say, (D)‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, (E)I do not know where you come from. (F)Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ 28 (G)In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see (H)Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but (I)you yourselves cast out.

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Prayer for Mercy

15 (A)Look down from heaven and see,
    (B)from your holy and beautiful[a] habitation.
Where are (C)your zeal and your might?
    The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
    are held back from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:15 Or holy and glorious

27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
    and speak, O Israel,
(A)“My way is hidden from the Lord,
    (B)and my right is disregarded by my God”?

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Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when (A)Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

51 (B)Have mercy on me,[a] O God,
    according to your steadfast love;
according to your (C)abundant mercy
    (D)blot out my transgressions.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:1 Or Be gracious to me

Remember your (A)mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,
    (B)for they have been from of old.

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