Mercy Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice.  Blessed are all who wait for him! - Isaiah 30:18 ... Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin. - Job 11:6 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. - Psalm 103:13 But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children. - Psalm 103:17 And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence.  I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” - Exodus 33:19 “... I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.’ I will say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people’; and they will say, ‘You are my God.’” - Hosea 2:23 ... Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion. - Isaiah 60:10 For my own name’s sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my praise I hold it back from you, so as not to cut you off. - Isaiah 48:9