Parallel Verses

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.

Bible in Basic English

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

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 called upon the name of the LORD, saying, O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
Yes, our God is compassionate.
6 The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and he saved me.

Cross References

Ezra 9:15

O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we have an escape, as it is this day, behold us here, before thee in our guiltiness; for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

Nehemiah 9:8

and didst find his heart faithful before thee and didst make a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it, to his seed and hast performed thy word; for thou art righteous.

Psalm 145:17

Tzaddi The LORD is righteous in all his ways and merciful in all his works.

Psalm 86:15

But thou, O Lord, art a merciful and gracious God, longsuffering and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Psalm 103:8

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

Psalm 119:137

TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

Exodus 34:6-7

And as the LORD passed by before him, he proclaimed, I AM, I AM strong, merciful, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth,

Daniel 9:7

O Lord, the righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us the confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near and that are far off through all the lands where thou hast driven them because of their rebellion with which they have rebelled against thee.

Daniel 9:14

And the LORD hastened upon the chastisement and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is just in all his works which he has done, for we did not listen to his voice.

Nehemiah 9:17

and refused to hear; neither did they remember thy wonders that thou hadst done among them, but hardened their necks and in their rebellion thought to appoint a leader to return to their bondage; but thou art a God of pardons, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great mercy, for thou didst not leave them.

Nehemiah 9:31

Nevertheless, for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Nehemiah 9:33

Howbeit thou art just in all that has come upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly;

Psalm 86:5

For thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all those that call upon thee.

Psalm 112:4

Zain A light has shined in the darkness upon the upright: Cheth Gracious and merciful and righteous.

Psalm 115:1

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy and for thy truth.

Psalm 145:4-8

Daleth One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Isaiah 45:21

Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together; who caused this to be heard from the beginning and has declared it from that time, except me, the LORD? and there is no God beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is no one besides me.

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous art thou, O LORD, even though I dispute with thee: even so, I will speak judgments with thee; Why does the way of the wicked prosper? All those that completely rebel against thee have peace.

Daniel 9:9

Of the Lord our God is the ability to have mercy and to forgive, even though we have rebelled against him

Romans 3:25-26

whom God purposed for reconciliation through faith in his blood for the manifestation of his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, by the patience of God,

Romans 5:20-21

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

Ephesians 1:6-8

to the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the beloved;

Ephesians 2:4

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great charity with which he loved us,

1 Timothy 1:14

And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Titus 3:4-7

But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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