Psalm 145:8

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Summary

Psalm 145:8

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

Lord is gracious

General references

Numbers 21:8

Bible References

Lord is gracious

For you, O Lord, [are] good and forgiving, and abundant in loyal love for all who call to you.

For Yahweh [is] good; his loyal love is forever, and his faithfulness [is] {from generation to generation}.

Yahweh [is] compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger} and abundant in loyal love.

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

And Yahweh passed over before him, and he proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God, [who is] compassionate and gracious, {slow to anger}, and abounding with loyal love and faithfulness,

'Yahweh [is] {slow to anger} and great of loyal love, {forgiving} sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.'

{Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord, our God}, for we have rebelled against him,

And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, [was] this not {what I said} while I was in my homeland? Therefore {I originally fled} to Tarshish, because I knew that you [are] a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger {and having great steadfast love}, and one who relents concerning calamity.

Who [is] a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love.

Now the law came in as a side issue, in order that the trespass could increase, but where sin increased, grace was present in greater abundance,

to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

General references

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Make for yourself a snake and place it on a pole. When anyone is bitten and looks at it, that person will live."