"You got me begging you for mercy
Why won't you release me
You got me begging you for mercy
Why won't you release me
I said you better release me..." (lyrics from 'Mercy', written by Duffy and Steve Booker)
This was the song playing in the car coming home from the Army today. This follows a number of references to mercy in the Scripture Union material we used at Sunday School today (the story of Jonah).
The word stems from the concept of compassion or leniency shown towards a person. It's a common virtue in Jewish, Islamic and Christian ethics.
It's an important truth.
“Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see,
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.” - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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