Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
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Gill's Exposition
Hath God forgotten to be gracious,.... He has not, is it possible that he should? as the Targum; it is not; he cannot forget the purposes of his grace and mercy, nor the covenant and promises of it,…
Barnes' Notes
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? - Has he passed over mercy in administering his government? Has he ceased to remember that man needs mercy? Has he forgotten that this is an attribute of his own…
We have here the lively portraiture of a good man under prevailing melancholy, fallen into and sinking in that horrible pit and that miry clay, but struggling to get out. Drooping saints, that are of…
Cambridge Bible
Has He forgotten or deliberately abandoned those attributes which He once proclaimed as the essence of His Nature (Exo 34:6)? Cp. Hab 3:2, "In wrath wilt thou remember mercy."
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