Psalm 103:8

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Summary

Psalm 103:8

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

Merciful

Slow

Joel 2:13

Jonah 4:2

Nahum 1:3

General references

Lamentations 3:31

Bible References

Merciful

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy unto all them that call upon you.

Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is abundant redemption.

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

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

The 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.

And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage: but you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsook them not.

Let 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.

You show lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompense 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,

Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Slow

And tear your hearts, 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 relents from sending calamity.

And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray you, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and you relent from the destruction.

The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

General references

For the Lord will not cast off forever: