Parallel Verses

NET Bible

The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

King James Version

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Holman Bible

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love.

International Standard Version

The LORD is compassionate and gracious, patient, and abundantly rich in gracious love.

A Conservative Version

LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

American Standard Version

Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.

Amplified


The Lord is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in compassion and lovingkindness.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Darby Translation

Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah being compassionate and merciful, slow to anger and great of mercy.

King James 2000

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh [is] compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger} and abundant in loyal love.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD is full of compassion and mercy; longsuffering, and of great goodness.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

The Emphasized Bible

Compassionate and gracious, is Yahweh, - Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness.

Webster

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

World English Bible

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

Youngs Literal Translation

Merciful and gracious is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 103:8

Images Psalm 103:8

Prayers for Psalm 103:8

Context Readings

The Forgiving God

7 The Lord revealed his faithful acts to Moses, his deeds to the Israelites. 8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love. 9 He does not always accuse, and does not stay angry.


Cross References

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.

Exodus 34:6-7

The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed: "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,

Numbers 14:18

The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.'

Nehemiah 9:17

They refused to obey and did not recall your miracles that you had performed among them. Instead, they rebelled and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God of forgiveness, merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and unfailing in your loyal love. You did not abandon them,

Psalm 145:8

The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

Joel 2:13

Return to the Lord your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love -- often relenting from calamitous punishment.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, "Oh, Lord, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish! -- because I knew that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.

Nahum 1:3

He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.

Psalm 86:5

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

Psalm 130:7

O Israel, hope in the Lord, for the Lord exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.

Isaiah 55:7

The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show unfailing love to thousands. But you also punish children for the sins of their parents. You are the great and powerful God who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Romans 5:20-21

Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,

Ephesians 1:7-8

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

James 5:11

Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job's endurance and you have seen the Lord's purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Deuteronomy 5:10

but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments.

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