Psalms 77:8 · KJV
“Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth {his} promise fail for evermore? {for evermore: Heb. to generation and generation?}”
— Psalms 77:8
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
Psalms 77 — Context
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth {his} promise fail for evermore? {for evermore: Heb. to generation and generation?}
9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
10And I said, This {is} my infirmity: {but I will remember} the years of the right hand of the most High.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19
God {is} not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do {it}? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Romans 9:6
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they {are} not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, {which} refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, {and as} waters {that} fail? {fail: Heb. be not sure?}
Luke 16:25-26
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Numbers 14:34
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, {even} forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, {even} forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. {breach...: or, altering of my purpose}
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, {and} set them on fire: for it {is} a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.