The Lord's Mercy Remembered

Isaiah 63

7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
u and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
 8 For he said, "Surely they are my people,
children who will not deal falsely."
And he became their Savior.
 9 v In all their affliction he was afflicted, 1
and the angel of his presence saved them;
w in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
x he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

10 y But they rebelled
z and grieved his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
and himself fought against them.
 11 Then he remembered a the days of old,
of Moses and his people. 2
b Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put in the midst of them
his Holy Spirit,
 12 who caused his glorious arm
to go at the right hand of Moses,
c who divided the waters before them
d to make for himself an everlasting name,
 13 who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
they did not stumble.
 14 Like livestock that go down into the valley,
e the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
So you led your people,
d to make for yourself a glorious name.

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 145:7
    They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
  2. Cross References
    Judges 10:16
    So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 7:7 - 8
    It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
    Ezekiel 16:5 - 6
    No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:10 - 12
    He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 15:24
    And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, ...
    Numbers 14:11
    And the Lord said to Moses, "How long will this...
    Psalms 78:17
    Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelli...
    Psalms 78:56
    Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most H...
    Psalms 95:9
    When your fathers put me to the test and put me...
    Ezekiel 20:8
    But they rebelled against me and were not willi...
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 78:40
    How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
    Acts 7:51
    You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
    Ephesians 4:30
    And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 77:11 - 20
    I will remember the deeds of the Lord ; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 14:19 - 22
    Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.
  9. Cross References
    Exodus 14:21
    Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
    Joshua 3:16
    The waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
  10. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:23
    And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?
    Nehemiah 9:10
    And performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.
  11. Cross References
    Numbers 10:33
    So they set out from the mount of the Lord three days' journey. And the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
  12. Cross References
    Isaiah 63:12
    Who caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to make for himself an everlasting name.
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