mercy

¶ And shee conceiued againe and bare a daughter, and God sayd vnto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more haue mercy vpon the house of Israel: but I will vtterly take them away.

1611 marginal noteThat is, not hauing obtained mercie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. I will not adde any more to.

1611 marginal noteOr, that I should altogether pardon them.

But I will haue mercy vpon the house of Iudah, and will saue them by the LORD their God, and will not saue them by vow, nor by sword, nor by battell, by horses nor by horsemen.

And I will not haue mercy vpon her children, for they be the children of whordomes.

And I will sow her vnto me in the earth, and I will haue mercy vpon her that had not obtained mercy, and I will say to them which were not my people; Thou art my people, and they shallsay, Thou art my God.

1611 marginal noteRom.9.26. 1.pet.2.10.

¶ Heare the worde of the LORD, yee children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controuersie with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no trueth, nor mercie, nor knowledge of God in the land.

1611 marginal noteMica.6.2.

For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more then burnt offerings.

1611 marginal noteMatth.9.13. and 10.7. eccles. 4.17. 1.sam. 15.22.

Sow to your selues in righteousnesse, reape in mercie: breake vp your fallow ground: for it is time to seeke the LORD, till he come and raine righteousnesse vpon you.

1611 marginal noteIer.4.4.

Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercie and iudgement, and wait on thy God continually.

Asshur shall not saue vs, we will not ride vpon horses, neither will wee say any more to the work of our hands, Yee are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.