Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Holman Bible
slow to anger and rich in faithful love.
International Standard Version
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, patient, and abundantly rich in gracious love.
A Conservative Version
LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
American Standard Version
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
Amplified
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in compassion and lovingkindness.
Darby Translation
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.
Julia Smith Translation
Jehovah being compassionate and merciful, slow to anger and great of mercy.
King James 2000
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Yahweh [is] compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger} and abundant in loyal love.
Modern King James verseion
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The LORD is full of compassion and mercy; longsuffering, and of great goodness.
NET Bible
The Lord is compassionate and merciful; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.
New Heart English Bible
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
The Emphasized Bible
Compassionate and gracious, is Yahweh, - Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness.
Webster
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.
World English Bible
Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.
Youngs Literal Translation
Merciful and gracious is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.
Themes
Anger » The lord being slow to anger
God » Mercy of » Promises of divine mercy
God's Promises » Of mercy » Promises of divine
Topics
References
Easton
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 103:8
Prayers for Psalm 103:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Forgiving God
7 He gave knowledge of his way to Moses, and made his acts clear to the children of Israel. 8 The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy. 9 His feeling will no longer be bitter; he will not keep his wrath for ever.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Exodus 34:6-7
And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;
Numbers 14:18
The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.
Nehemiah 9:17
And would not do them, and gave no thought to the wonders you had done among them; but made their necks stiff, and turning away from you, made a captain over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt: but you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.
Joel 2:13
Let your hearts be broken, and not your clothing, and come back to the Lord your God: for he is full of grace and pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, ready to be turned from his purpose of punishment.
Jonah 4:2
And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.
Nahum 1:3
The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
Jeremiah 32:18
You have mercy on thousands, and send punishment for the evil-doing of the fathers on their children after them: the great, the strong God, the Lord of armies is his name:
Romans 5:20-21
And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:
Ephesians 1:7-8
In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,
James 5:11
We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
Deuteronomy 5:10
And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.