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Mercy is YAHUAH’s compassion, covenant kindness, forgiveness, and rescue toward the weak, guilty, needy, repentant, and afflicted. His mercy does not excuse sin. His mercy calls us to return, confess, forsake wickedness, receive cleansing, and become merciful toward others.

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Key understanding: YAHUAH’s mercy and justice together

• Exodus 34:6-7 — YAHUAH proclaimed His Name as merciful, gracious, longsuffering, abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, yet not clearing the guilty.
  • Context: Mercy does not mean YAHUAH ignores sin. He forgives, restores, and shows compassion, while remaining righteous and just.
  • Cross references: Numbers 14:18; Deuteronomy 7:9-10; Nahum 1:2-3; Romans 3:25-26.
• Psalm 85:10 — Mercy and truth meet together; righteousness and peace kiss.
• Micah 7:18-19 — YAHUAH pardons iniquity, delights in mercy, subdues iniquities, and casts sins into the depths of the sea.

YAHUAH is rich, abundant, and everlasting in mercy

• Deuteronomy 4:31 — YAHUAH is merciful. He will not forsake, destroy, or forget His covenant.
• 2 Samuel 24:14 — David chose to fall into the hand of YAHUAH because His mercies are great, rather than fall into human hands.
• Nehemiah 9:31 — In great mercy, YAHUAH did not utterly consume or forsake His people.
• Psalm 86:5 — YAHUAH is good, ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all who call upon Him.
• Psalm 86:15 — YAHUAH is full of compassion, gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.
• Psalm 103:8-13 — YAHUAH is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.
• Psalm 145:8-9 — YAHUAH is gracious, full of compassion, slow to anger, and great in mercy. His tender mercies are over all His works.
  • Cross references: Psalm 25:6; Psalm 116:5; Psalm 117:2; Psalm 136:1-26.

Mercy that endures forever

• 1 Chronicles 16:34 — Give thanks to YAHUAH, for He is good; His mercy endures forever.
• Psalm 106:1 — Praise YAHUAH, for He is good; His mercy endures forever.
• Psalm 107:1 — Give thanks to YAHUAH, for He is good; His mercy endures forever.
• Psalm 118:1 — Give thanks to YAHUAH, for He is good; His mercy endures forever.
• Psalm 136:1-26 — This whole psalm repeats the declaration: “For His mercy endures forever.”
  • Context: Repetition trains the heart to remember that YAHUAH’s mercy is steady through creation, deliverance, wilderness, battles, provision, and redemption.
  • Cross references: 2 Chronicles 5:13-14; 2 Chronicles 20:21; Ezra 3:11.

Mercy for repentance, confession, and return