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Nehemiah 9:31
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Nehemiah 9:31
31Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
31Neuerthelesse, for thy great mercies sake, thou diddest not vtterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and mercifull God.
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Nehemiah 9:31
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Nevertheless
Not the less; even so; despite the preceding circumstance or objection.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Cause, account, purpose, interest, or benefit; used in phrases meaning because of or for the benefit of someone or something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To waste away slowly; to be exhausted.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart from. To leave; to withdraw from; to fail. To abandon; to renounce; to reject.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Merciful, kind, and disposed to show favor.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Showing mercy, compassion, or readiness to forgive.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study22¶ It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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Open the full verse study6And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
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Open the full verse study27For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
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Open the full verse study17And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.
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Open the full verse study8The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
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Open the full verse study18Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you.
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Open the full verse study10¶ Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.
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Open the full verse study8The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
9The Lord is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.
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Open the full verse study9For if ye turn again unto the Lord, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.
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Open the full verse study23And the Lord was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
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Open the full verse study9To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
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Open the full verse study22¶ Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
23And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.
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