Psalms 77:8

What does Psalms 77:8 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 77:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing?

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations?

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath [his] word come to an end from generation to generation?

Context

v.7Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?

v.8This passage

v.9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? [Selah

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 27:11

    When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

  • Numbers 14:34

    After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

  • Romans 9:6

    Butit isnot as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:

  • 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 will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?

  • Jeremiah 15:18

    Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?

  • 2 Peter 3:9

    The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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