Psalms 116:5

"Gracious is Jehovah and righteous;

Yea, our God is merciful.

Jehovah preserveth the simple:

I was brought low, and he saved me."

"Gracious ... righteous ... merciful" (Psalms 116:5). Delitzsch stated that, "The term `righteous' here comprehends within itself everything that Yahweh asserts concerning Himself in Exodus 34:6ff."[9] Thus this passage exhibits familiarity with the Pentateuch and also with Psalms 112:4 where these same three attributes of God are mentioned together. In fact, in the language of this psalm, there are so many allusions, quotations, and similarities to other portions of the Old Testament that, "Hupfeld called it a `patched-up psalm'."[10]

Of course, it is no such thing. The words of the Psalter and of the entire Old Testament available at that time, "Were part of this singer's mental furniture, and came to his lips, when he brought his own thanksgivings."[11]