Psalms 116:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

The Lorde is mercifull and righteous, and our God is full of compassion.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חַנּ֣וּן יְהֹוָ֣ה וְצַדִּ֑יק וֵ֖אלֹהֵ֣ינוּ מְרַחֵֽם׃

Transliteration

ḥannûn YHWH and ṣaddîq and ʾĕlōhênû meraḥēm

Grammar Details

• *ḥannûn*: adjective, masculine singular - gracious
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ve-ṣaddîq*: conjunction + adjective, masculine singular - and righteous
• *ve-ʾĕlōhênû*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix - and our God
• *meraḥēm*: verb, piel participle, masculine singular - showing mercy/compassionate

Word Meanings

• *ḥannûn*: gracious/merciful/compassionate
• *ṣaddîq*: righteous/just/in the right
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: our God/our deity
• *meraḥēm*: compassionate/merciful/showing mercy

Referenced Verses

• Ezra 9:15 : 15 O Lord God of Israel, thou art iust, for we haue bene reserued to escape, as appeareth this day: beholde, we are before thee in our trespasse: therfore we canot stand before thee because of it.
• Neh 9:8 : 8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede the lande of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Iebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy wordes, because thou art iust.
• Ps 86:15 : 15 But thou, O Lorde, art a pitifull God and mercifull, slowe to anger and great in kindenes and trueth.
• Ps 103:8 : 8 The Lord is full of compassion and mercie, slowe to anger and of great kindnesse.
• Ps 119:137 : 137 Tsaddi. Righteous art thou, O Lorde, and iust are thy iudgements.
• Ps 145:17 : 17 The Lord is righteous in all his wayes, and holy in all his workes.
• Dan 9:7 : 7 O Lord, righteousnes belongeth vnto thee, and vnto vs open shame, as appeareth this day vnto euery man of Iudah, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem: yea, vnto all Israel, both neere and farre off, through all the countreys, whither thou hast driuen them, because of their offences, that they haue committed against thee.
• Exod 34:6-7 : 6 So the Lord passed before his face, and cried, The Lord, the Lord, strong, mercifull, & gracious, slowe to anger, and abundant in goodnesse and trueth, 7 Reseruing mercy for thousands, forgiuing iniquitie, and transgression and sinne, and not making the wicked innocent, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon ye children, & vpon childrens children, vnto the third and fourth generation.
• Dan 9:14 : 14 Therefore hath the Lord made ready the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we would not heare his voyce.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a reconciliation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnes, by the forgiuenesse of the sinnes that are passed, 26 Through the patience of God, to shewe at this time his righteousnesse, that hee might be iust, and a iustifier of him which is of the faith of Iesus.
• Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Moreouer the Law entred thereupon that the offence shoulde abound: neuerthelesse, where sinne abounded, there grace abounded much more: 21 That as sinne had reigned vnto death, so might grace also reigne by righteousnesse vnto eternall life, through Iesus Christ our Lord.
• Eph 1:6-8 : 6 To the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made vs freely accepted in his beloued, 7 By whom we haue redemption through his blood, euen the forgiuenes of sinnes, according to his rich grace: 8 Whereby he hath bene aboundant toward vs in all wisedome and vnderstanding,
• Eph 2:4 : 4 But God which is rich in mercie, through his great loue wherewith he loued vs,
• 1 Tim 1:14 : 14 But the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and loue, which is in Christ Iesus.
• Titus 3:4-7 : 4 But when that bountifulnesse & that loue of God our Sauiour toward man appeared, 5 Not by the woorkes of righteousnesse, which we had done, but according to his mercie he saued vs, by the washing of the newe birth, and the renewing of the holy Ghost, 6 Which he shed on vs aboundantly, through Iesus Christ our Sauiour, 7 That we, being iustified by his grace, should be made heires according to the hope of eternall life.
• 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we acknowledge our sinnes, he is faithfull and iust, to forgiue vs our sinnes, & to clense vs from all vnrighteousnes.
• Ps 112:4 : 4 Vnto the righteous ariseth light in darkenes: he is merciful & full of copassion & righteous.
• Ps 115:1 : 1 Not vnto vs, O Lord, not vnto vs, but vnto thy Name giue the glorie, for thy louing mercie and for thy truethes sake.
• Neh 9:17 : 17 But refused to obey, & would not remember thy marueilous works that thou haddest done for them, but hardened their neckes, and had in their heads to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: but thou, O God of mercies, gratious and full of compassion, of long suffring and of great mercie, yet forsookest them not.
• Neh 9:31 : 31 Yet for thy great mercies thou hast not consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and mercifull God.
• Neh 9:33 : 33 Surely thou art iust in all that is come vpon vs: for thou hast dealt truly, but we haue done wickedly.
• Ps 86:5 : 5 For thou, Lord, art good and mercifull, and of great kindenes vnto all them, that call vpon thee.
• Dan 9:9 : 9 Yet compassion and forgiuenesse is in the Lorde our God, albeit we haue rebelled against him.
• Isa 45:21 : 21 Tell ye and bring them, and let them take counsell together, who hath declared this from the beginning? or hath tolde it of olde? Haue not I the Lord? and there is none other God beside me, a iust God, and a Sauiour: there is none beside me.
• Jer 12:1 : 1 O Lorde, if I dispute with thee, thou art righteous: yet let mee talke with thee of thy iudgements: wherefore doeth the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they in wealth that rebelliously transgresse?
• Ps 145:4-8 : 4 Generation shal praise thy works vnto generation, and declare thy power. 5 I wil meditate of the beautie of thy glorious maiestie, and thy wonderfull workes, 6 And they shall speake of the power of thy fearefull actes, and I will declare thy greatnes. 7 They shall breake out into the mention of thy great goodnes, and shall sing aloude of thy righteousnesse. 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercie.