| Our God is a God of Love. Therefore, His love is
higher than ours. In English, we have only one word for love,
but in Hebrew, there are four. In the Old Testament, the word for the
love of God is Haceed.
Haceed is an overwhelming desire
to give of yoursself to the other person,
for thier benefit, no matter what it costs you.
The word haseed is normally translated
as either love, mercy, or compassion. However, with the
definition above, haceed love is much deeper than our
normal understanding of these words. In this list, the
word hacees is in bold.
Ps 4:1 - Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief
from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.
Ps 5:7 - But I, by your great mercy, will come into your house;
in reverence will I bow down toward your holy temple.
Ps 6:2 - Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; O LORD, heal
me, for my bones are in agony.
Ps 6:4 - Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your
unfailing love.
Ps 9:13 - O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have
mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,
Ps 13:5 - But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices
in your salvation.
Ps 17:7 - Show the wonder of your great love, you who save
by your right hand those who take refuge in you from their foes
Ps 18:25 - To the faithful you show yourself
faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless
Ps 18:50 - He gives his king great victories; he shows unfailing kindness
to his anointed, to David and his descendants forever.
Ps 21:7 - For the king trusts in the LORD; through the unfailing
love of the Most High he will not be shaken.
Ps 23:6 - Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the
days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Ps 25:6 - Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and
love, for they are from of old. (2 different verb forms of
haceed)
Ps 25:7 - Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according
to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD.
Ps 25:10 - All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful
for those who keep the demands of his covenant.
Ps 26:3 - for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually
in your truth.
Ps 26:11 - But I lead a blameless life; redeem me and be
merciful to me.
Ps 30:10 - Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me; O LORD, be
my help."
Ps 31:7 - I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you
saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.
Ps 31:16 - Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your
unfailing love.
Ps 32:10 - Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing
love surrounds the man who trusts in him.
Ps 33:18 - But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose
hope is in his unfailing love,
Ps 33:22 - May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even
as we put our hope in you.
Ps 36:5 - Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your
faithfulness to the skies.
Ps 36:7 - How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and
low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Ps 36:10 - Continue your love to those who know you, your
righteousness to the upright in heart.
Ps 40:10 - I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your
faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and
your truth from the great assembly.
Ps 40:11 - Do not withhold your mercy from me, O LORD; may
your love and your truth always protect me.
Ps 41:4 - I said, "O LORD, have mercy on me; heal me, for I
have sinned against you."
Ps 41:10 - But you, O LORD, have mercy on me; raise me up,
that I may repay them.
Ps 42:8 - By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song
is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.
Ps 48:9 - Within your temple, O God, we meditate on your unfailing
love.
Ps 51:1 - Have mercy on me, O God, according to your
unfailing love; according to your great
compassion blot out my transgressions.
Ps 52:8 - But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I
trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.
Ps 56:1 - Be merciful to me, O God, for men hotly pursue me;
all day long they press their attack.
Ps 57:1 - Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy
on me, for in you my soul takes refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow
of your wings until the disaster has passed.
Ps 57:3 - He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue
me; Selah God sends his love and his faithfulness.
Ps 57:10 - For great is your love, reaching to the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Ps 59:5 - O LORD God Almighty, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish
all the nations; show no mercy to wicked traitors. Selah
Ps 59:10 - The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall
let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
Ps 61:7 - May he be enthroned in God's presence forever; appoint your
love and faithfulness to protect him.
Ps 62:12 - And that you, O Lord, are loving. Surely you will
reward each person according to what he has done.
Ps 63:3 - Because your love is better than life, my lips will
glorify you.
Ps 66:20 - Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his
love from me!
Ps 67:1 - May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his
face shine upon us, Selah
Ps 69:13 - But I pray to you, O LORD, in the time of your favor; in your
great love, O God, answer me with your sure salvation.
Ps 69:16 - Answer me, O LORD, out of the goodness of your
love; in your great mercy turn to me.
Ps 77:8 - Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his
promise failed for all time?
Ps 77:9 - Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his
compassion?" Selah
Ps 79:8 - Do not hold against us the sins of the fathers; may your
mercy come quickly to meet us, for we are in desperate need.
Ps 85:7 - Show us your unfailing love, O LORD, and grant us
your salvation.
Ps 85:10 - Love and faithfulness meet together; righteousness
and peace kiss each other.
Ps 86:3 - Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I call to you all day
long.
Ps 86:5 - You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in
love to all who call to you.
Ps 86:13 - For great is your love toward me; you have delivered
me from the depths of the grave.
Ps 86:15 - But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious
God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
Ps 86:16 - Turn to me and have mercy on me; grant your strength
to your servant and save the son of your maidservant.
Ps 88:11 - Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness
in Destruction ?
Ps 89:1 - I will sing of the LORD's great love forever; with
my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.
Ps 89:2 - I will declare that your love stands firm forever,
that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself.
Ps 89:14 - Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
love and faithfulness go before you.
Ps 89:24 - My faithful love will be with him, and through my
name his horn will be exalted.
Ps 89:28 - I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant
with him will never fail.
Ps 89:33 - but I will not take my love from him, nor will I
ever betray my faithfulness.
Ps 89:49 - O Lord, where is your former great love, which in
your faithfulness you swore to David?
Ps 90:14 - Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Ps 92:2 - to proclaim your love in the morning and your
faithfulness at night,
Ps 94:18 - When I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O
LORD, supported me.
Ps 98:3 - He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to
the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of
our God.
Ps 100:5 - For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Ps 101:1 - I will sing of your love and justice; to you, O
LORD, I will sing praise.
Ps 103:4 - who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with
love and compassion,
Ps 103:8 - The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to
anger, abounding in love.
Ps 103:11 - For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his
love for those who fear him;
Ps 103:17 - But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's
love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with
their children's children
Ps 106:1 - Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his
love endures forever.
Ps 106:7 - When our fathers were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles;
they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled
by the sea, the Red Sea.
Ps 106:45 - for their sake he remembered his covenant and out of his
great love he relented.
Ps 107:1 - Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his
love endures forever.
Ps 107:43 - Whoever is wise, let him heed these things and consider the
great love of the LORD.
Ps 108:4 - For great is your love, higher than the heavens;
your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Ps 109:12 - May no one extend kindness to him or take pity
on his fatherless children.
Ps 109:16 - For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded
to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted.
Ps 109:21 - But you, O Sovereign LORD, deal well with me for your name's
sake; out of the goodness of your love, deliver me.
Ps 109:26 - Help me, O LORD my God; save me in accordance with your
love.
Ps 115:1 - Not to us, O LORD, not to us but to your name be the glory, because
of your love and faithfulness.
Ps 117:2 - For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness
of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.
Ps 118:1 - Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his
love endures forever.
Ps 118:2 - Let Israel say: "His love endures forever."
Ps 118:3 - Let the house of Aaron say: "His love endures forever."
Ps 118:4 - Let those who fear the LORD say: "His love endures
forever."
Ps 118:29 - Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his
love endures forever.
Ps 119:41 - May your unfailing love come to me, O LORD, your
salvation according to your promise;
Ps 119:58 - I have sought your face with all my heart; be
gracious to me according to your promise.
Ps 119:64 - The earth is filled with your love, O LORD; teach
me your decrees.
Ps 119:76 - May your unfailing love be my comfort, according
to your promise to your servant.
Ps 119:77 - Let your compassion come to me that I may live,
for your law is my delight.
Ps 119:88 - Preserve my life according to your love, and I
will obey the statutes of your mouth.
Ps 119:132 - Turn to me and have mercy on me, as you always
do to those who love your name.
Ps 119:149 - Hear my voice in accordance with your love; preserve
my life, O LORD, according to your laws.
Ps 119:156 - Your compassion is great, O LORD; preserve my
life according to your laws.
Ps 119:159 - See how I love your precepts; preserve my life, O LORD, according
to your love.
Ps 123:2 - As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master, as the
eyes of a maid look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the
LORD our God, till he shows us his mercy.
Ps 123:3 - Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy on us, for
we have endured much contempt.
Ps 130:7 - O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is
unfailing love and with him is full redemption.
Ps 136:2-26 (25 times) - …His love endures forever.
Ps 138:2 - I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name
for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above
all things your name and your word.
Ps 138:8 - The LORD will fulfill [his purpose] for me; your
love, O LORD, endures forever-- do not abandon the works of
your hands.
Ps 143:8 - Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing
love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
Ps 143:12 - In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy
all my foes, for I am your servant.
Ps 145:8 - The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich
in love.
Ps 145:9 - The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all
he has made. |