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Tried but Trusting

Psalms 86:5

In 11 translations

BSB
For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
KJV
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
WEB
For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
ASV
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.
LSV
For You, Lord, [are] good and forgiving, || And abundant in kindness to all calling You.
YLT
For Thou, Lord, [art] good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.
DBY
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.
DRC85:5
For thou, O Lord, art sweet and mild: and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.
GNV
For thou, Lord, art good and mercifull, and of great kindenes vnto all them, that call vpon thee.
JPS
For Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to pardon, and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon Thee.
LXXE85:5
For thou, O Lord, art kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.

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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
כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אֲ֭דֹנָי ט֣וֹב וְסַלָּ֑ח וְרַב־חֶ֝֗סֶד לְכָל־קֹרְאֶֽיךָ׃
LXX-Br85:5
Ὅτι σὺ Κύριε χρηστὸς καὶ ἐπιεικὴς, καὶ πολυέλεος πᾶσι τοῖς ἐπικαλουμένοις σε.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 145:8–9The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion. The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
  • Joel 2:13So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.
  • Exodus 34:6Then 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,
  • Psalms 103:8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
  • Nehemiah 9:17They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and…
  • Acts 2:21And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
  • Psalms 25:8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
  • Ezekiel 36:37This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.
  • 1 John 4:8–9Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.
  • Psalms 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
  • Ephesians 1:6–8to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace that He…
  • Psalms 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
  • Micah 7:18Who 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?
  • Romans 10:12–13For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him, for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
  • Psalms 130:7O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
  • Psalms 119:68You are good, and You do what is good; teach me Your statutes.

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