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I Will Exalt You, My God and King

Psalms 145:8

In 11 translations

BSB
The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion.
KJV
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.of great…: Heb. great in mercy
WEB
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.
ASV
Jehovah is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.
LSV
YHWH [is] gracious and merciful, || Slow to anger, and great in kindness.
YLT
Gracious and merciful [is] Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.
DBY
Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.
DRC144:8
The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy.
GNV
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercie.
JPS
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
LXXE144:8
The Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
חַנּ֣וּן וְרַח֣וּם יְהוָ֑ה אֶ֥רֶךְ אַ֝פַּ֗יִם וּגְדָל־חָֽסֶד׃
LXX-Br144:8
Οἰκτίρμων καὶ ἐλεήμων ὁ Κύριος, μακρόθυμος καὶ πολυέλεος.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 14:18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to…
  • Psalms 103:8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
  • Psalms 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
  • Psalms 100:5For the LORD is good, and His loving devotion endures forever; His faithfulness continues to all generations.
  • Psalms 116:5The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.
  • Psalms 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
  • Micah 7:18–20Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion? He will again have…
  • Romans 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life…
  • Exodus 34:6–7Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, maintaining loving devotion to a thousand…
  • Ephesians 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
  • Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to…
  • Ephesians 1:8that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
  • Daniel 9:9To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him
  • Ephesians 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

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