Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy.

New American Standard Bible

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
Yes, our God is compassionate.

King James Version

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

Holman Bible

The Lord is gracious and righteous;
our God is compassionate.

International Standard Version

The LORD is gracious and righteous; our God is compassionate;

A Conservative Version

Gracious is LORD, and righteous. Yea, our God is merciful.

American Standard Version

Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; Yea, our God is merciful.

Amplified


Gracious is the Lord, and [consistently] righteous;
Yes, our God is compassionate.

Darby Translation

Gracious is Jehovah and righteous; and our God is merciful.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah is merciful and just, and our God compassionates

King James 2000

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Gracious [is] Yahweh and righteous, and our God [is] merciful.

Modern King James verseion

Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous, yea our God is merciful.

NET Bible

The Lord is merciful and fair; our God is compassionate.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

The Emphasized Bible

Gracious is Yahweh and righteous, and, our God, is full of compassion.

Webster

Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God is merciful.

World English Bible

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

Youngs Literal Translation

Gracious is Jehovah, and righteous, Yea, our God is merciful,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חנּוּן 
Channuwn 
Usage: 13

is the Lord

Usage: 0

and righteous
צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

Context Readings

Thanksgiving For God's Deliverance

4 Then I made my prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, take my soul out of trouble. 5 The Lord is full of grace and righteousness; truly, he is a God of mercy. 6 The Lord keeps the simple; I was made low, and he was my saviour.


Cross References

Ezra 9:15

O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

Nehemiah 9:8

You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:

Psalm 103:8

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

Psalm 119:137

O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

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;

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

Daniel 9:14

So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

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.

Nehemiah 9:31

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.

Nehemiah 9:33

But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:

Psalm 112:4

For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

Psalm 115:1

Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.

Isaiah 45:21

Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

Jeremiah 12:1

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Daniel 9:9

With the Lord our God are mercies and forgiveness, for we have gone against him;

Romans 3:25-26

Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

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 1:6-8

To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

1 Timothy 1:14

And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:4-7

But when the mercy of God our Saviour, and his love to man was seen,

1 John 1:9

If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

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