Psalms 78:38
“But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.”
Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”
“For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”
“But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.”
“For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”
“In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.”