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Let me hear Your loving devotion in the morning, for I have put my trust in You. Teach me the way I should walk, for to You I lift up my soul.

And in Your loving devotion, cut off my enemies. Destroy all who afflict me, for I am Your servant.

He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.

The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.

Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.

A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.

Do not those who contrive evil go astray? But those who plan goodness find loving devotion and faithfulness.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

By loving devotion and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns aside from evil.

The desire of a man is loving devotion; better to be poor than a liar.

Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?

Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.

He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

…in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.

A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.

In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous are taken away from the presence of evil.

I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the LORD.

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.

You show loving devotion to thousands but lay the iniquity of the fathers into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Hosts,

…the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official,

And I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed, “O, Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant of loving devotion to those who love Him and keep His commandments,

So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and always wait on your God.

So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.