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Psalms 103:8
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Psalms 103:8
8The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
8*†The LORD is mercifull and gracious: slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
- Heb. great of mercie.
- Exod.34.7. deut.34.6 nnm. 14.18 nehe. 9.17. psal.86.15. ier. 32.18.
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Psalms 103:8
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Showing mercy, compassion, or readiness to forgive.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Merciful, kind, and disposed to show favor.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
Not quick; taking time; delayed or reluctant.
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Strong displeasure or indignation; as a verb, to provoke to such displeasure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Abundant, plentiful, or present and bestowed in large measure.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Open the full verse study15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
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Open the full verse study13And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
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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 study8The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
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Open the full verse study3The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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Open the full verse study5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
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Open the full verse study7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
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Open the full verse study2And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
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Open the full verse study18The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
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Open the full verse study11Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
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Open the full verse study7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
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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 study7Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
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Open the full verse study10And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
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Open the full verse study18Thou shewest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them: the Great, the Mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name,
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Open the full verse study20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
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