 Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. exalts mercy over judgment. This accords with the description that Jehovah gave of Himself to Moses, on that rarest of occasions: Jehovah, God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth; keeping mercy unto the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the childrens children unto the third and the fourth generation Exodus 34:6-7. He keeps mercy to the 1000th generation, He punishes to the 4th; the proportion is 250:1. That is why it is important that we show mercy. 