Quotes about Mercy
Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
— Isaiah 64:9
Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
— Jeremiah 3:5
A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
— Jeremiah 3:21
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
— Jeremiah 5:3
“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.
— Jeremiah 5:18
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
— Jeremiah 10:24
But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
— Jeremiah 12:15
I will smash them against one another, fathers and sons alike, declares the LORD. I will allow no mercy or pity or compassion to keep Me from destroying them.’”
— Jeremiah 13:14
Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.
— Jeremiah 14:7
You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.
— Jeremiah 15:6
But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
— Jeremiah 18:8
and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
— Jeremiah 18:10