These Bible Verses For God’s Mercy are for days when you feel weak, undeserving or worn out. The psalmists cried out for mercy in sickness, danger and failure, and they found a God whose compassion is new every morning. Pray these lines as your own, give thanks for mercy already received, and let it shape how you treat others.
O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 136:1 (KJV)
A simple song of thanks: the Lord is good, and his mercy endures for ever.
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV)
Because his compassions fail not, we are not consumed; his mercies are new every morning.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Psalms 23:6 (KJV)
David closes his shepherd psalm confident that goodness and mercy will follow him all his days.
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Psalms 86:15 (KJV)
God is described as full of compassion, gracious, longsuffering and plenteous in mercy and truth.
The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Psalms 145:8-9 (KJV)
The Lord is slow to anger, and his tender mercies are over all his works.
Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Psalms 57:1 (KJV)
Written in danger, this prayer asks for mercy and finds refuge under the shadow of God’s wings.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 6:2 (KJV)
When you feel weak and your body aches, this is a short, honest cry for mercy and healing.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Psalms 103:13 (KJV)
Like a father who pities his children, the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
Luke 1:50 (KJV)
Mary’s song praises a God whose mercy rests on those who fear him from generation to generation.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
Ephesians 2:4-5 (KJV)
Being rich in mercy, God made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in sins.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Peter 1:3 (KJV)
Peter blesses God, whose abundant mercy has given believers a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 5:7 (KJV)
Jesus promises that the merciful are blessed, for they shall obtain mercy themselves.
Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Psalms 69:16 (KJV)
Pray this when you need an answer: hear me, O Lord, and turn to me in your tender mercies.
And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Isaiah 30:18 (KJV)
The Lord waits to be gracious and rises up to have mercy on his people.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Micah 6:8 (KJV)
Receiving mercy leads to loving mercy, doing justly and walking humbly with God.
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Psalms 40:11 (KJV)
David asks that God not withhold his tender mercies but keep him by lovingkindness and truth.
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:21 (KJV)
Keep yourselves in God’s love while looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Lamentations 3:22-23 works well prayed each morning, as a fresh request for that day’s renewed mercy.
Bible Verses About Repentance and Bible Verses About Faith During Trials pick up threads that run through these verses.
All Scripture here is quoted from the King James Version, which you can read in full at Blue Letter Bible.
Some of the same ground is covered in Bible Verses For Relationship Problems and Bible Verses For Spiritual Healing.
Bible Verses For God's Plan and Bible Verses For Forgiveness are good companions to this page.
Readers of this page often go on to Bible Verses For Heaven or Bible Verses For Angels and Protection.
For a related angle, see Bible Verses For God's Grace or Bible Verses About God's Grace.
If the KJV wording feels unfamiliar, Bible Gateway lets you set it beside a modern translation.
For word studies and cross-references, Bible Hub is a helpful next step.
Return to this verse each morning as a renewed request for God’s daily mercy.
Mercy and grace are related but distinct — mercy withholds deserved punishment, while grace gives undeserved favor. Both matter together, but understanding this distinction helps clarify exactly what you are asking for when you pray for mercy specifically. If you are currently facing consequences you genuinely deserve, mercy is the specific request that addresses withholding those deserved consequences, distinct from grace’s additional gift of favor beyond that.
If you have used mercy and grace interchangeably without much distinction, this difference is worth understanding directly — it can sharpen exactly what you are asking for in a specific situation.
Lamentations 3:22-23’s description of mercy being new every morning uses deliberately fresh, renewed language — not a single supply meant to last indefinitely, but something genuinely renewed each day. This matters practically. Whatever mercy you needed yesterday and whatever you exhausted it on, today’s mercy arrives fresh, not depleted by yesterday’s need.
Rather than praying generally for mercy, naming the specific situation where you need it — a specific consequence you are hoping to be spared, a specific failure you are bringing honestly before God — tends to focus this prayer more effectively than a vague, general request.
Whatever specific consequence you are hoping to be spared or failure you are bringing honestly before God, these verses are meant to be prayed directly over that actual situation, not read only as general spiritual comfort.
Return to this list each new morning, letting the promise of renewed mercy meet you fresh at the start of each day, not only during moments of acute need.
Whatever tomorrow brings, this same mercy will be renewed then too, offered fresh again rather than already spent by today’s specific need.
Rest in that today, exactly as things are.
Share this list with someone else who is also carrying a need for mercy today, letting the same renewed mercy you have received extend outward to encourage them too.
You do not have to earn this before receiving it, today or any day.
These verses were never meant to sit on a page as decoration \u2014 they’re meant to shape how you actually respond the next time you keep needing the same mercy for the same struggle more times than you’d like to admit.
You don’t need polished or formal language for it \u2014 an honest, plainly worded sentence is enough, something as simple as telling God directly to receive His mercy again, without shame about needing it again.
After Nathan confronted him over Bathsheba and Uriah, David wrote, “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions” (Psalm 51:1). This was not a minor lapse he was excusing; it involved adultery and an arranged death, yet he still approached God asking directly for mercy rather than hiding, without waiting for time to soften how serious it truly was.
Bible Verses For God’s Mercy gain weight from David’s example precisely because his failure was so serious. He did not bargain or minimize what he had done. He simply asked, and the same psalm records him later restored to usefulness, still trusted with leading others again. Bible Verses For God’s Mercy exist for exactly this kind of honest, unhidden request, offered without delay or excuse.
When Nineveh repented and God relented from destroying the city, Jonah was displeased rather than glad, admitting he had fled earlier because he knew God was “a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness” (Jonah 4:1-2). He wanted mercy for himself but resented it extended toward people he considered enemies, people he thought deserved judgment rather than a second chance.
Jonah’s story is an uncomfortable mirror. Bible Verses For God’s Mercy are not reserved only for people we think deserve a second chance; the same compassion that covers our own failures reaches toward others we might rather see punished instead.
After twelve years of illness and spent resources, a woman pressed through a crowd simply to touch the hem of Jesus’ garment, and was healed instantly by her faith (Mark 5:25-34). She did not have formal standing or a rehearsed request; she simply reached out in quiet desperation, uncertain whether she would even be noticed at all.
Her story shows that Bible Verses For God’s Mercy do not require perfect wording or confidence, only genuine reaching toward Christ. Sometimes the most honest prayer is barely spoken at all, more a movement toward God than a polished sentence, and Bible Verses For God’s Mercy meet exactly that kind of quiet reaching.
Before the returning son could finish his rehearsed apology, his father saw him a great way off, ran to him, and fell on his neck (Luke 15:20). The mercy shown was not measured out cautiously after hearing a full confession; it arrived running, ahead of any words spoken at all, before a single explanation had even been offered.
This picture matters for anyone rehearsing an apology they assume God will need convincing to accept. Bible Verses For God’s Mercy often move faster than our carefully prepared explanations, meeting a returning heart while it is still a great way off from home.
David waited months before Nathan’s confrontation, carrying unconfessed guilt the whole time, and later described that season as one where his bones wasted away (Psalm 32:3-4). The mercy he eventually received was not slower because God was reluctant; the delay was his own silence, not God’s unwillingness to answer him sooner.
If mercy has felt slow to arrive in your own situation, it is worth asking honestly whether something similar is happening, an unspoken matter kept quiet rather than brought into the open where it can actually be met and finally answered.
Lord, like David I bring this specific failure honestly rather than hiding it, asking for mercy according to Your lovingkindness rather than what I have earned. Soften any resentment in me, the way Jonah needed softening, toward anyone I think does not deserve the mercy I am asking for myself today.
Let me reach toward You the way the woman in the crowd reached toward Jesus, without polished words, just genuine need. Amen.
Bible Verses For God’s Mercy become far more than words on a page once they shape how you actually approach both your own failures and other people’s.
Day 1: Psalm 51:1-12, David’s honest plea after Bathsheba. Day 2: Jonah 3:10-4:2, mercy shown to Nineveh and Jonah’s resentment. Day 3: Mark 5:25-34, the woman healed by reaching toward Jesus. Day 4: Luke 15:17-24, the father running to meet the prodigal son. Day 5: Hebrews 4:16, coming boldly to obtain mercy in time of need.
Working through this plan across a week shows how consistently Bible Verses For God’s Mercy address both grave failure and quiet desperation, never turning either kind of need away.
Jonah wanted fairness for Nineveh, meaning judgment matching their wrongdoing, and was upset when God extended mercy instead. Many people quietly expect the same fairness for themselves, assuming mercy should only be given once consequences have been paid down somewhat first, as though it were something slowly earned back over time.
Mercy by definition is unfair in the sense that it withholds what would otherwise be deserved. Bible Verses For God’s Mercy are only meaningful because they describe exactly this kind of undeserved release, not a reward carefully balanced against good behavior beforehand.
Consider honestly: is there a specific failure, like David’s, that I have been hiding rather than naming plainly before God? Is there someone I am secretly hoping does not receive the same mercy I want for myself, the way Jonah resented Nineveh? Am I waiting for polished words before I pray, when the woman in the crowd needed only a reaching hand?
Sitting with these questions honestly, rather than rushing past them, often reveals exactly where Bible Verses For God’s Mercy are most needed in your life right now, today, not in some future moment once things feel more resolved.
David went on to lead again after Psalm 51; Jonah eventually delivered his message even while resenting the outcome; the prodigal’s father threw a celebration rather than a probation period. Each act of mercy changed what came next, not merely how someone felt in the moment itself, reshaping the whole relationship going forward from that day onward, permanently, in ways nothing else could have managed.
Bible Verses For God’s Mercy are meant to move outward from your own life into how you treat people who fail the way you have failed. For more on this specific request, Bible Verses For Mercy gathers further verses suited to asking for and extending mercy today.
It helps to know where the famous line about morning mercies was written. Lamentations is a book of grief composed after Babylon broke through Jerusalem’s walls in 586 BC. The temple had burned. Families were starving in the streets. The poet does not hide any of it, and for two and a half chapters he piles up complaints. He says God has shut out his prayer and made his path crooked. Then, right in the middle of the book, he writes, “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.”
What follows is the passage most of us know: “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23). Read against the smoke and rubble, it sounds different from a greeting card. The poet is not claiming that nothing bad happened. He is saying the city is in ruins and yet the people are not wiped out, and that fact alone points to a God who has not finished with them.
A man sitting in a half-empty house after a layoff, or a woman outside an ICU room, may find this more believable than breezy encouragement. The verse lets grief stay grief. It simply insists that the day ahead will contain some mercy you do not yet see. If the weight of loss has sat on you for a long time, it is also wise to talk with a pastor, a counselor or a doctor. Reaching for that kind of help is not a lack of faith.
Psalm 136 does something that would make a modern editor wince. Every one of its twenty-six verses ends with the same line, “for his mercy endureth for ever.” It opens, “O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever” (Psalm 136:1), and then it tells the whole story of Israel, line by line, with that refrain stamped on the end.
Creation gets the refrain. So do the plagues of Egypt, the crossing of the sea, the long years in the wilderness and the defeat of hostile kings. Even the sentence about God striking down Egypt’s firstborn carries it. The point seems to be that mercy was never a separate chapter of Israel’s history. It was running underneath every chapter, including the frightening ones. The Hebrew word behind it, hesed, means steady loyalty, a kindness that stays when it has no obligation to.
In many congregations this psalm was probably sung with a leader calling the first half and the crowd answering the second. You can try something like that yourself. Read one line aloud, then say the refrain out loud even if you are alone in the kitchen. Something shifts when you say it twelve or thirteen times in a row. The words stop being a slogan and start sounding like something you have actually been told. By the last verse, which mentions God remembering us in our low estate, the repeated line feels earned rather than pasted on.
The fifth beatitude is short enough to memorize in a breath: “Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy” (Matthew 5:7). It is easy to read it as a simple trade, as though kindness to others buys kindness from God. The rest of the Sermon on the Mount does not support that reading. Just a few verses earlier, the poor in spirit are given the kingdom as a gift, with nothing to pay for it.
A better way to hear the verse is as a description of a changed person. Someone who has truly received mercy will find it hard to hoard. Jesus makes the same connection after the Lord’s Prayer, saying that if we forgive others, our heavenly Father will also forgive us (Matthew 6:14-15). Notice that he is describing how mercy works in a life, and not setting up a ledger.
Micah 6:8 pushes in the same direction: “what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” Loving mercy is a stronger phrase than occasionally showing it. It suggests a taste that grows, like learning to enjoy a food you disliked as a child.
Here is a small practice for this week. Pick one person who has irritated you, perhaps a coworker who takes credit or a relative who forgets your birthday. Do one concrete merciful thing for that person without announcing it. You may find the Bible verses for God’s mercy on this page read differently by Friday.
Psalm 103 contains one of the gentlest comparisons in the Bible: “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust” (Psalm 103:13-14). David is not describing a distant judge with a clipboard. He is describing the way a parent responds to a child who is sick, or scared, or who has made a mess that cannot be fixed.
Think about what a good father actually knows. He knows his daughter is tired when she snaps at him. He knows his son is more embarrassed than defiant when he lies about a broken window. That knowledge does not excuse the behavior, but it changes the response. Psalm 103 claims God has this kind of knowledge about us and that it shapes how he deals with us. He remembers that we are dust. Nothing about our weakness surprises him.
This matters for people who carry a quiet fear that God is waiting for them to fail. The psalm answers that fear in the verses just before: he hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities (Psalm 103:10). Fear in this psalm means reverent respect, the kind that keeps us close, and it is nothing like dread.
For anyone whose own father was harsh or absent, the picture may be hard to hold at first. It can help to read the verse slowly alongside Luke 15, where the father runs. Let Scripture correct the image rather than your history. If old wounds make that difficult, a pastor or counselor can walk through it with you.
More verse collections related to this page: Bible Verses About God's Mercy, Bible Verses About Trusting God in Hard Times, Bible Verses For God's Peace, Bible Verses About The Nature Of God and Bible Verses For Trusting God in Hard Times.
If you want to dig further, Blue Letter Bible, Bible Gateway and Bible Hub are good places to start.
Lamentations 3:22-23 works well prayed each morning, as a fresh request for that day's renewed mercy.
This page brings together 9 King James Version references about god’s Mercy, drawn from 6 different books of the Bible.
Yes. The verses about god’s Mercy gathered here include passages from both the Old Testament and the New Testament, such as Lamentations 3:22 and Mark 5:25.
Lamentations 3:22 is one of the verses about god’s Mercy referenced in this collection, alongside Psalm 51:1.
Yes, the verses referenced on this page, including Lamentations 3:22, are quoted according to the King James Version (KJV), and are suitable for daily reading, memorization, or devotional use.
