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Psalms 86:15–16
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Psalms 86:15
15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
15*But thou, O LORD, art a God full of compassion, and gracious: long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and trueth.
- Deut. 34.6. num. 14.18. psal. 103.8. and 139.4. and 145.8.
Psalms 86:16
16O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
16O turne vnto me, and haue mercie vpon me, giue thy strength vnto thy seruant: and saue the sonne of thine handmaid.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 86:15
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
compassion
Pity, fellow-feeling.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Merciful, kind, and disposed to show favor.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
longsuffering
Bearing injuries or provocation for a long time; patient; not easily provoked.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Abundant, plentiful, or present and bestowed in large measure.
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: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
That which is true; conformity to fact, reality, faithfulness, or God's revealed word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 86:16
To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Compassion or pity shown to the distressed or guilty; kindness that withholds deserved harm.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
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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 study7In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
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Open the full verse study8The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
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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 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 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 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 study18Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
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Open the full verse study10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
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Open the full verse study4He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the Lord is gracious and full of compassion.
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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 study3He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
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Open the full verse study4But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
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Open the full verse study6And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
7The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
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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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Open the full verse study17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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Open the full verse study8Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
9And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study10Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
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Open the full verse study13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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Open the full verse study29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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Open the full verse study16O Lord, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
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Open the full verse study16Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.
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Open the full verse study11Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
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Open the full verse study16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
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Open the full verse study3In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.
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Open the full verse study132Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.
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Open the full verse study94I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study7The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
8The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
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Open the full verse study16Hear me, O Lord; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
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Open the full verse study5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
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Open the full verse study13Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
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Open the full verse study12And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study38And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
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Open the full verse study24Surely, shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
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