Psalms 77:9

7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
KJV
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
WEB
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.
ASV
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah
DARBY
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
BLB
Or has God forgotten to show favor? Has He shut up in anger His compassion?” Selah
ÅB
Har Gud glemt å være nådig? Har han i vrede tillukket sin barmhjertighet? Sela.
OTB
Har Gud glemt å være nådig,
Eller har Han i vrede holdt tilbake sin medfølelse?
Sela
B1930
Har Gud glemt å være nådig? Har han i vrede tillukket sin barmhjertighet? Sela.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Isaiah 49:14–15

    But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

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  • Psalms 40:11

    Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

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  • Luke 13:25–28

    When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

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  • 1 John 3:17

    But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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  • Romans 11:32

    For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

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  • Psalms 25:6

    Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

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  • Psalms 51:1

    Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

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  • Isaiah 63:15

    Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

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