Psalms 145:8

New King James Version

The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.

Parallel Translations

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercie.

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

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD is gracious, merciful, Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.

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

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

American Standard Version
Jehovah is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.

Contemporary English Version
You are merciful, Lord ! You are kind and patient and always loving.

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

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

King James Version (1611)
The Lord is gracious and full of compassion: slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord is compassionate, and merciful; long suffering, and abundant in mercy.

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

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

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

Literal Translation
Jehovah is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great mercy;

New Century Version
The Lord is kind and shows mercy. He does not become angry quickly but is full of love.

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

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

New Life Bible
The Lord is full of loving-favor and pity, slow to anger and great in loving-kindness.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Gracious and compassionate, is Yahweh, - slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(144-8) The Lord is gracious and merciful: patient and plenteous in mercy.

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy.

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

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

King James Version
The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God is gratious and mercifull: loth to be angry, and great in louing kindnesse.

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

Darby Translation
Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord is a merciful doere, and merciful in wille; paciente, and myche merciful.

Young's Literal Translation
Gracious and merciful [is] Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

World English Bible
Yahweh is gracious, merciful, Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.

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

Update Bible Version
Yahweh is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD [is] gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Bible in Basic English
The Lord is full of grace and pity; not quickly angry, but great in mercy.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The LORDE is gracious and mercifull, longe sufferynge & of greate goodnesse.

THE MESSAGE
God is all mercy and grace— not quick to anger, is rich in love.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Lord is gracious and merciful; Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh is gracious and compassionate;Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.

Contextual Overview

¹ I will extol You, my God, O King; And I will bless Your name forever and ever. ² Every day I will bless You, And I will praise Your name forever and ever. ³ Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; And His greatness is unsearchable. ⁴ One generation shall praise Your works to another, And shall declare Your mighty acts. ⁵ I [fn] will meditate on [fn] the glorious splendor of Your majesty,And on Your wondrous works. ⁶ Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, And I will declare Your greatness. ⁷ They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, And shall sing of Your righteousness. ⁸ The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy. ⁹ The LORD is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lord is gracious: Psalms 86:5, Psalms 86:15, Psalms 100:5, Psalms 103:8, Psalms 116:5, Exodus 34:6, Exodus 34:7, Numbers 14:18, Daniel 9:9, Jonah 4:2, Micah 7:18-20, Romans 5:20, Romans 5:21, Ephesians 1:6, Ephesians 1:8, Ephesians 2:4

of great mercy: Heb. great in mercy

Reciprocal: Numbers 21:8 - General Deuteronomy 4:31 - the Lord 2 Chronicles 30:9 - the Lord Nehemiah 9:17 - gracious Nehemiah 9:31 - gracious Psalms 36:7 - How Psalms 111:4 - full Psalms 135:3 - for the Lord Jeremiah 3:12 - for I am Jeremiah 9:24 - lovingkindness Jonah 4:11 - and also Nahum 1:3 - slow Matthew 18:27 - moved Matthew 20:34 - Jesus Mark 8:2 - compassion Mark 10:49 - stood James 5:11 - the Lord is

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord [is] gracious,.... These are the epithets of our Lord Jesus Christ, and may be truly and with great propriety said of him; he is "gracious", kind, and good, in the instances before mentioned; he is full of grace, and readily distributes it; his words are words of grace; his Gospel, and the doctrines of it, are doctrines of grace; his works are works of grace, all flowing from his wondrous grace and mercy:

and full of compassion: or "merciful" d, in the most tender manner; hence he came into the world to save sinners, and in his pity redeemed them; and when on earth showed his compassion both to the bodies and souls of men, by healing the one and instructing the other; and particularly had compassion on the ignorant, and them that were out of the way; pitying those that were as sheep without a shepherd, as the blind Jews under their blind guides were; and is very compassionate to his people under all their temptations, afflictions, trials, and exercises; see Hebrews 2:17;

slow to anger; to the wicked Jews, though often provoked by their calumnies and reproaches, and by their ill behaviour to him in various instances; yet we never read but once of his being angry, and that was through grief at the hardness of their hearts, Mark 3:5; and likewise to his own disciples, who were often froward and perverse, and of bad spirits, very troublesome and afflictive to him, yet he patiently bore with them:

and of great mercy; a merciful High Priest, typified by the mercy seat, where we may find grace and mercy at all times; through whom God is merciful to sinners, and to whose mercy we are to look for eternal life.

d רחום "misericors", V. L. Tigurine version, Musculus, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord is gracious - See Psalms 86:5, note; Psalms 86:15, note.

And full of compassion - Kind; compassionate; ready to do good. See the notes at Psalms 103:8.

Slow to anger - See Psalms 103:8, where the same expression occurs.

And of great mercy - Margin, great in mercy. His greatness is shown in his mercy; and the manifestation of that mercy is great: great, as on a large scale; great, as manifested toward great sinners; great, in the sacrifice made that it may be displayed; great, in the completeness with which sin is pardoned - pardoned so as to be remembered no more.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 145:8. The Lord is gracious — His holy nature is ever disposed to show favour.

Full of compassion — Wherever he sees misery, his eye affects his heart.

Slow to anger — When there is even the greatest provocation.

Of great mercy. — Great in his abundant mercy. These four things give us a wonderful display of the goodness of the Divine nature.