Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

The Lord is gracious and merciful;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in faithful love.

International Standard Version

Gracious and merciful is the LORD, slow to become angry, and overflowing with gracious love.

A Conservative Version

LORD is gracious, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

American Standard Version

Jehovah is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.

Amplified


The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Darby Translation

Jehovah is gracious and merciful; slow to anger, and of great loving-kindness.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah is compassionate and merciful; slow to anger, and great of mercy.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah is gracious and full of pity; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The LORD is gracious and merciful, long-suffering and of great goodness.

NET Bible

The Lord is merciful and compassionate; he is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

The Emphasized Bible

Gracious and compassionate, is Yahweh, - slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.

Webster

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

World English Bible

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

Youngs Literal Translation

Gracious and merciful is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness.

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Psalm 145:8

References

Prayers for Psalm 145:8

Context Readings

Praising God's Greatness

7 They shall pour forth the fame of your abundant goodness and shall sing aloud of your righteousness. 8 The Lord is gracious and merciful;
Slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.
9 The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.

Cross References

Numbers 14:18

'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'

Psalm 86:5

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Exodus 34:6-7

The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Psalm 100:5

For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 103:8

The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

Psalm 116:5

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

Jonah 4:2

And he prayed to the LORD and said, "O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.

Micah 7:18-20

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

Daniel 9:9

To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

Romans 5:20-21

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Ephesians 1:6

to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Ephesians 1:8

which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

Ephesians 2:4

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

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