Psalms 103:8

Brenton's Septuagint

The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, long-suffering, and full of mercy.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.

English Revised Version
The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Update Bible Version
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.

New Century Version
The Lord shows mercy and is kind. He does not become angry quickly, and he has great love.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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 lovingkindness.

Amplified Bible
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in compassion and lovingkindness.

English Standard Version
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord is merciful doer, and merciful in wille; longe abidinge, and myche merciful.

Berean Standard Bible
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord is merciful! He is kind and patient, and his love never fails.

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in grace.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord is kind and merciful. He is patient and full of love.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

King James Version (1611)
The Lord is mercifull and gracious: slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

New Life Bible
The Lord is full of loving-pity and kindness. He is slow to anger and has much loving-kindness.

New Revised Standard
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord is full of compassion and mercie, slowe to anger and of great kindnesse.

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

Good News Translation
The Lord is merciful and loving, slow to become angry and full of constant love.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Compassionate and gracious, is Yahweh, - Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(102-8) The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.

Revised Standard Version
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God is full of compassion and pitie: loth to be angry, and exceedyng great in mercie.

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord is compassionate and gracious,slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.

King James Version
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Lexham English Bible
Yahweh is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loyal love.

Literal Translation
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and of abundant mercy.

Young's Literal Translation
Merciful and gracious [is] Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE is full of compassion and mercy, longe sufferinge, and of greate goodnesse.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in mercy.

New King James Version
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh is compassionate and gracious,Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Contextual Overview

⁶ The Lord executes mercy and judgment for all that are injured. ⁷ He made known his ways to Moses, his will to the children of Israel. ⁸ The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, long-suffering, and full of mercy. ⁹ He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever. ¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities. ¹¹ For as the heaven is high above the earth, the Lord has so increased his mercy toward them that fear him. ¹² As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. ¹³ As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that fear him. ¹⁴ For he knows our frame: remember that we are dust. ¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

merciful: Psalms 86:5, Psalms 86:15, Psalms 130:7, Psalms 145:8, Exodus 34:6, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18, Deuteronomy 5:10, Nehemiah 9:17, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 32:18, Romans 5:20, Romans 5:21, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 1:8

slow: Joel 2:13, Jonah 4:2, Nahum 1:3

plenteous in mercy: Heb. great of mercy

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:16 - the Lord 2 Samuel 24:14 - for his 1 Chronicles 21:13 - great Nehemiah 9:31 - gracious Psalms 26:11 - and Psalms 62:12 - mercy Psalms 86:13 - great Psalms 111:4 - gracious Psalms 116:5 - Gracious Proverbs 16:32 - that is Isaiah 48:9 - defer Jeremiah 3:5 - he reserve Jeremiah 3:12 - for I am Lamentations 3:31 - General Malachi 3:17 - and I Matthew 28:10 - go Ephesians 2:4 - who James 5:11 - the Lord is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord is merciful and gracious,.... So he made himself known to Moses, Exodus 34:6, and so David found him to be, and therefore calls upon his soul to bless his name. God is "merciful" in the most tender and affectionate manner; he has bowels of mercy, which yearn towards his people, as those of a tender parent to its child, as the word signifies; his mercy is free, without any motive or merit in men to engage it; he delights in showing it; he constantly bestows it; it is the source of all good things; it is communicated through Christ; all mercies temporal and spiritual come by him; and this lays a foundation for faith and hope: and he is gracious, as appears in the eternal choice of his people to salvation; in providing a Saviour and a ransom for them; in giving all grace and the blessings of it to them in his Son; in giving him for them, and all things to them with him; in justifying them by his righteousness; in pardoning their sins for his sake; in taking them into his family; in regenerating, calling, preserving, and saving them:

slow to anger, or "longsuffering" d; even to wicked men, to the vessels of wrath, to the old world, yea, to Jezebel, to whom he gave space to repent; which longsuffering being abused and despised, is an aggravation of condemnation: but rather here it intends God's longsuffering to his people, as before conversion, waiting till the time comes that he is gracious to them; and after conversion, notwithstanding their backslidings and revoltings; and this longsuffering is their salvation:

and plenteous in mercy; large and abundant in it, as appears by the various instances of it, and ways and methods in which he shows it; in election, in the covenant, in redemption, in regeneration, in pardon and eternal life; and by the abundance of it which he bestows on every one of his people; and by the vast numbers which do partake of it.

d ארך אפים "longanimis", V. L. Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord is merciful and gracious - See the notes at Psalms 78:38. The idea here is derived evidently from Exodus 34:6-7 - that great and glorious statement of God himself in regard to his own character. Our world is a different world under that statement from what it would be if that and kindred declarations had not been made. There is here a “progression” of thought; an “advance” on the previous statements. At first the psalmist referred to his own individual experience Psalms 103:3-5; then he referred to the dealings of God toward the Hebrew people Psalms 103:6-7; and now he rises to the general contemplation of his character as it relates to all mankind. It was a characteristic of God in respect to all, that he was kind, compassionate, and forbearing.

Slow to anger - That is, patient; not soon excited; bearing much, and bearing it long. See James 5:11; compare Exodus 34:6-7.

And plenteous in mercy - Margin, “great of mercy.” The Hebrew word means “much,” or great;” and the idea is, that mercy is not manifested by him in small or stinted measure. It is rich; full; abundant; overflowing; free.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 103:8. The Lord is merciful — Psalms 86:15.