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King David Playing the Harp, Gerard van Honthorst

Psalm 33:5

Gerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622 · Centraal Museum, Utrecht · Public domainGerard van Honthorst, King David Playing the Harp, 1622, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

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Psalm 33:5 (WEB)

He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the LORD.

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Origen

  • “…up His abode amongst us only,” when we have found that all thoughtful persons must say in their prayers, that “the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord,” and that “the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh;” and that God, being good, “maketh His sun to arise upon the evil and the good, and sendeth His rain upon…” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. 5.

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John Cassian

  • “For those offerings of fasts, which we thoughtlessly extort by violently tearing our bowels, and fancy that we rightly offer to the Lord, these He execrates who “loves mercy and judgment” saying: “I the Lord love judgment, but I hate robbery in a burnt offering.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxii. (xxxiii.) 5; Is. lxi. 8.

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Augustine of Hippo

Leo the Great

  • “On the one side, no doubt, we are flattered by deceits, and on the other weighed down by troubles; but because “the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord,” Christ’s victory is assuredly ours, that what He says may be fulfilled, “Fear not, for I have overcome the world.”” — editor's note: Ps. xxxiii. 5.

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