 You remember reading that maybe when you were a kid and saying, what in the world are bowels of mercy? I mean, that just sounds like something you don't say in public, you know? But that's actually a really literal translation of this concept. The mercy of God, God's mercy, which is referred to five times in Luke chapter 1, 27 times in the New Testament, God's mercy that's extended to alleviate the misery caused by sin