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In the Day of Trouble I Sought the LORD

Psalms 77:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?
KJV
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?for evermore: Heb. to generation and generation?
WEB
Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
ASV
Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?
LSV
Has His kindness ceased forever? The saying failed from generation to generation?
YLT
Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations?
DBY
Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath [his] word come to an end from generation to generation?
DRC76:9
Or will he cut off his mercy for ever, from generation to generation?
GNV
Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? doeth his promise faile for euermore?
JPS77:9
Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Is His promise come to an end for evermore?
LXXE76:9
Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever?

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Original-language editions

WLC77:9
הֶאָפֵ֣ס לָנֶ֣צַח חַסְדּ֑וֹ גָּ֥מַר אֹ֝֗מֶר לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר׃KJV:Ps.77.8
LXX-Br76:9
Ἢ εἰς τέλος ἀποκόψει τὸ ἔλεος ἀπὸ γενεᾶς καὶ γενεᾶς;

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
  • 2 Peter 3:9The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
  • Romans 9:6It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
  • Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
  • Numbers 14:34In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
  • Luke 16:25–26But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony. And besides all this, a great…
  • Isaiah 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

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