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Psalm 145:9
The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
7They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
8The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
9The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.
10All your works will give thanks to you, LORD. Your saints will extol you.
11They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk about your power,
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The repeated word “all” stretches the reach of God's goodness beyond familiar people, with tender mercy extending over everything he has made.
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Matthew 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.Sun and rain reaching both good and evil people give concrete expression to the psalm's declaration that God is good to all.
Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind …Luke names the unthankful and evil as recipients of God's kindness, matching the breadth of the psalm's words “good to all.”
Ephesians 4:32And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.The psalm praises God's tender mercies; Ephesians speaks of God's forgiveness in Christ and urges tenderhearted kindness toward others.
Nahum 1:7The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.Both declare that the LORD is good; Nahum describes that goodness through refuge and God's knowledge of those who trust him.
Psalm 100:5For the LORD is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.Both declare the LORD's goodness, with Psalm 100 stressing enduring loving kindness and Psalm 145 stressing mercy over all his works.
Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand …God's concern for Nineveh includes its people and animals, sharing the psalm's reach beyond human life to all his works.
Acts 17:25He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.Acts describes God giving life and breath to all, sharing the psalm's emphasis on the breadth of his goodness.
Psalm 104:27Creatures waiting for God to provide food show the dependence of his works on the goodness Psalm 145 praises.
Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.Justice for the fatherless and widow, and provision for the foreigner, show concrete forms of the goodness and mercy the psalm praises.
Psalm 51:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, God, according to your …Both name God's tender mercies; Psalm 51 appeals to them for forgiveness, while Psalm 145 declares their reach over all his works.
Psalm 65:9–13You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.God watering the earth and providing grain gives a concrete picture of his goodness toward the works he has made.
Genesis 9:10and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that go out of the ship, even every …Both texts reach beyond human life: the psalm names all God's works, while Genesis names birds, livestock, and other animals.
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God's goodness reaches beyond the people and places you know. His tender mercies extend over all his works, including the life he has given you.
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