Teks -- Psalms 145:8 (NET)

145:8 The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

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JFB: Psa 145:8-9

(Compare Psa 103:8; Psa 111:4).

JFB: Psa 145:8-9 - over all, &c.

Rests on all His works.

Clarke: Psa 145:8 - The Lord is gracious

The Lord is gracious - His holy nature is ever disposed to show favor

Clarke: Psa 145:8 - Full of compassion

Full of compassion - Wherever he sees misery, his eye affects his heart

Clarke: Psa 145:8 - Slow to anger

Slow to anger - When there is even the greatest provocation

Clarke: Psa 145:8 - Of great mercy

Of great mercy - Great in his abundant mercy. These four things give us a wonderful display of the goodness of the Divine nature.

Calvin: Psa 145:8 - Jehovah is gracious

8.Jehovah is gracious, etc. He opens up the goodness of which he spoke by using several expressions, as that God is inclined to mercy, (for such is the proper meaning of the word חנון , channun,) and that he helps us willingly, as one sympathizing with our miseries. It is to be noticed that David has borrowed the terms which he here applies to God from that celebrated passage in Exo 34:6; and as the inspired writers drew their doctrine from the fountain of the law, we need not wonder that they set a high value upon the vision which is there recorded, and in which as clear and satisfactory a description of the nature of God is given us as can anywhere be found. David, therefore, in giving us a brief statement of what it was most important we should know in reference to God, makes use of the same terms employed there. Indeed no small part of the grace of God is to be seen in his alluring us to himself by such attractive titles. Were he to bring his power prominently into view before us, we would be cast down by the terror of it rather than encouraged, as the Papists represent him a dreadful God, from whose presence all must fly, whereas the proper view of him is that which invites us to seek after him. Accordingly, the more nearly that a person feels himself drawn to God, the more has he advanced in the knowledge of him. If it be true that God is not only willing to befriend us, but is spoken of as touched with sympathy for our miseries, so as to be all the kinder to us the more that we are miserable, what folly were it not to fly to him without delay? But as we drive God’s goodness away from us by our sins, and block up the way of access, unless his goodness overcome this obstacle, it would be in vain that the Prophets spoke of his grace and mercy. ²⁸⁰ It was necessary, therefore, to add what follows, that great is his mercy, that he pardons sins, and bears with the wickedness of men, so as to show favor to the unworthy. As regards the ungodly, although God shows them his long-suffering patience, they are incapable of perceiving pardon, so that the doctrine on which we insist has a special application to believers only, who apprehend God’s goodness by a living faith. To the wicked it is said —

“To what end is the day of the Lord for you? the day of the Lord is darkness and not light, affliction and not joy.”
(Amo 5:18.)

We see in what severe terms Nahum threatens them at the very beginning of his prophecy. Having referred to the language used in the passage from Moses, he adds immediately, on the other hand, to prevent them being emboldened by it, that God is a rigid and severe, a terrible and an inexorable judge. (Nah 1:3.) They therefore who have provoked God to anger by their sins, must see to secure his favor by believing.

TSK: Psa 145:8 - Lord is gracious // of great mercy

Lord is gracious : Psa 86:5, Psa 86:15, Psa 100:5, Psa 103:8, Psa 116:5; Exo 34:6, Exo 34:7; Num 14:18; Dan 9:9; Jon 4:2; Mic 7:18-20; Rom 5:20, Rom 5:21; Eph 1:6, Eph 1:8, Eph 2:4

of great mercy : Heb. great in mercy

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Haydock: Psa 145:8 - Enlighteneth

Enlighteneth. Hebrew, "openeth the eyes. " Septuagint, "gives wisdom to the blind." Many of these favours seem to be understood in a spiritual sense, and allude to the times of Christ, when these miracles were performed. (Berthier) (Isaias xxxv. 5., and Matthew xi. 5. (Calmet)

Gill: Psa 145:8 - The Lord is gracious // and full of compassion // slow to anger // and of great mercy

The Lord is gracious,.... These are the epithets of our Lord Jesus Christ, and may be truly and with great propriety said of him; he is "gracious", kind, and good, in the instances before mentioned; he is full of grace, and readily distributes it; his words are words of grace; his Gospel, and the doctrines of it, are doctrines of grace; his works are works of grace, all flowing from his wondrous grace and mercy:

and full of compassion: or "merciful" ^d, in the most tender manner; hence he came into the world to save sinners, and in his pity redeemed them; and when on earth showed his compassion both to the bodies and souls of men, by healing the one and instructing the other; and particularly had compassion on the ignorant, and them that were out of the way; pitying those that were as sheep without a shepherd, as the blind Jews under their blind guides were; and is very compassionate to his people under all their temptations, afflictions, trials, and exercises; see Heb 2:17;

slow to anger; to the wicked Jews, though often provoked by their calumnies and reproaches, and by their ill behaviour to him in various instances; yet we never read but once of his being angry, and that was through grief at the hardness of their hearts, Mar 3:5; and likewise to his own disciples, who were often froward and perverse, and of bad spirits, very troublesome and afflictive to him, yet he patiently bore with them:

and of great mercy; a merciful High Priest, typified by the mercy seat, where we may find grace and mercy at all times; through whom God is merciful to sinners, and to whose mercy we are to look for eternal life.