the First Week of Lent
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Psalms 103:8
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The Lord is compassionate and gracious,slow to anger and abounding in faithful love.
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
The Lord shows mercy and is kind. He does not become angry quickly, and he has great love.
The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in compassion and lovingkindness.
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in mercy.
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
The Lord is full of compassion and mercie, slowe to anger and of great kindnesse.
Yahweh is compassionate and gracious,Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
The Lord is merciful! He is kind and patient, and his love never fails.
Adonai is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in grace.
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.
The Lord is kind and merciful. He is patient and full of love.
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy.
The Lord is merciful and loving, slow to become angry and full of constant love.
Yahweh is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loyal love.
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and of abundant mercy.
The LORDE is full of compassion and mercy, longe sufferinge, and of greate goodnesse.
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.
The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
The Lord is mercifull and gracious: slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
God is full of compassion and pitie: loth to be angry, and exceedyng great in mercie.
The Lord is compassionate and pitiful, long-suffering, and full of mercy.
The LORD is full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
The Lord is merciful doer, and merciful in wille; longe abidinge, and myche merciful.
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.
The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.
The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
The Lord is full of loving-pity and kindness. He is slow to anger and has much loving-kindness.
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Compassionate and gracious, is Yahweh, - Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness.
(102-8) The Lord is compassionate and merciful: longsuffering and plenteous in mercy.
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
Merciful and gracious [is] Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.
The Lord is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
Contextual Overview
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.
